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patch 8.1.1280: remarks about functionality not in Vi clutters the help
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Author: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
Date: Sun May 5 18:13:34 2019 +0200
patch 8.1.1280: remarks about functionality not in Vi clutters the help
Problem: Remarks about functionality not in Vi clutters the help.
Solution: Move all info about what is new in Vim or already existed in Vi to
vi_diff.txt. Remove {not in Vi} remarks. (closes #4268) Add
"noet" to the help files modeline. Also include many other help
file improvements.
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1 *spell.txt* For Vim version 8.1. Last change: 2019 May 05 |
| 221 | 2 |
| 3 | |
| 4 VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar | |
| 5 | |
| 6 | |
| 7 Spell checking *spell* | |
| 8 | |
| 9 1. Quick start |spell-quickstart| | |
| 378 | 10 2. Remarks on spell checking |spell-remarks| |
| 11 3. Generating a spell file |spell-mkspell| | |
| 12 4. Spell file format |spell-file-format| | |
| 221 | 13 |
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14 {not available when the |+syntax| feature has been disabled at compile time} |
| 221 | 15 |
| 1125 | 16 Note: There also is a vimspell plugin. If you have it you can do ":help |
| 17 vimspell" to find about it. But you will probably want to get rid of the | |
| 18 plugin and use the 'spell' option instead, it works better. | |
| 19 | |
| 221 | 20 ============================================================================== |
| 1622 | 21 1. Quick start *spell-quickstart* *E756* |
| 221 | 22 |
| 23 This command switches on spell checking: > | |
| 24 | |
| 25 :setlocal spell spelllang=en_us | |
| 26 | |
| 237 | 27 This switches on the 'spell' option and specifies to check for US English. |
| 221 | 28 |
| 29 The words that are not recognized are highlighted with one of these: | |
| 333 | 30 SpellBad word not recognized |hl-SpellBad| |
| 388 | 31 SpellCap word not capitalised |hl-SpellCap| |
| 333 | 32 SpellRare rare word |hl-SpellRare| |
| 33 SpellLocal wrong spelling for selected region |hl-SpellLocal| | |
| 221 | 34 |
| 237 | 35 Vim only checks words for spelling, there is no grammar check. |
| 36 | |
| 435 | 37 If the 'mousemodel' option is set to "popup" and the cursor is on a badly |
| 38 spelled word or it is "popup_setpos" and the mouse pointer is on a badly | |
| 564 | 39 spelled word, then the popup menu will contain a submenu to replace the bad |
| 842 | 40 word. Note: this slows down the appearance of the popup menu. Note for GTK: |
| 41 don't release the right mouse button until the menu appears, otherwise it | |
| 42 won't work. | |
| 435 | 43 |
| 237 | 44 To search for the next misspelled word: |
| 45 | |
| 1622 | 46 *]s* |
| 237 | 47 ]s Move to next misspelled word after the cursor. |
| 253 | 48 A count before the command can be used to repeat. |
| 500 | 49 'wrapscan' applies. |
| 237 | 50 |
| 51 *[s* | |
| 253 | 52 [s Like "]s" but search backwards, find the misspelled |
| 348 | 53 word before the cursor. Doesn't recognize words |
| 54 split over two lines, thus may stop at words that are | |
| 386 | 55 not highlighted as bad. Does not stop at word with |
| 56 missing capital at the start of a line. | |
| 253 | 57 |
| 58 *]S* | |
| 59 ]S Like "]s" but only stop at bad words, not at rare | |
| 60 words or words for another region. | |
| 61 | |
| 62 *[S* | |
| 63 [S Like "]S" but search backwards. | |
| 237 | 64 |
| 221 | 65 |
| 523 | 66 To add words to your own word list: |
| 314 | 67 |
| 68 *zg* | |
| 386 | 69 zg Add word under the cursor as a good word to the first |
| 501 | 70 name in 'spellfile'. A count may precede the command |
| 71 to indicate the entry in 'spellfile' to be used. A | |
| 72 count of two uses the second entry. | |
| 73 | |
| 74 In Visual mode the selected characters are added as a | |
| 75 word (including white space!). | |
| 76 When the cursor is on text that is marked as badly | |
| 77 spelled then the marked text is used. | |
| 78 Otherwise the word under the cursor, separated by | |
| 79 non-word characters, is used. | |
| 80 | |
| 81 If the word is explicitly marked as bad word in | |
| 82 another spell file the result is unpredictable. | |
| 314 | 83 |
| 383 | 84 *zG* |
| 386 | 85 zG Like "zg" but add the word to the internal word list |
| 86 |internal-wordlist|. | |
| 383 | 87 |
| 314 | 88 *zw* |
| 386 | 89 zw Like "zg" but mark the word as a wrong (bad) word. |
| 712 | 90 If the word already appears in 'spellfile' it is |
| 91 turned into a comment line. See |spellfile-cleanup| | |
| 92 for getting rid of those. | |
| 314 | 93 |
| 383 | 94 *zW* |
| 386 | 95 zW Like "zw" but add the word to the internal word list |
| 96 |internal-wordlist|. | |
| 383 | 97 |
| 712 | 98 zuw *zug* *zuw* |
| 99 zug Undo |zw| and |zg|, remove the word from the entry in | |
| 100 'spellfile'. Count used as with |zg|. | |
| 101 | |
| 102 zuW *zuG* *zuW* | |
| 103 zuG Undo |zW| and |zG|, remove the word from the internal | |
| 104 word list. Count used as with |zg|. | |
| 105 | |
| 333 | 106 *:spe* *:spellgood* |
| 386 | 107 :[count]spe[llgood] {word} |
| 391 | 108 Add {word} as a good word to 'spellfile', like with |
| 712 | 109 |zg|. Without count the first name is used, with a |
| 386 | 110 count of two the second entry, etc. |
| 314 | 111 |
| 391 | 112 :spe[llgood]! {word} Add {word} as a good word to the internal word list, |
| 712 | 113 like with |zG|. |
| 383 | 114 |
| 333 | 115 *:spellw* *:spellwrong* |
| 386 | 116 :[count]spellw[rong] {word} |
| 391 | 117 Add {word} as a wrong (bad) word to 'spellfile', as |
| 712 | 118 with |zw|. Without count the first name is used, with |
| 386 | 119 a count of two the second entry, etc. |
| 314 | 120 |
| 391 | 121 :spellw[rong]! {word} Add {word} as a wrong (bad) word to the internal word |
| 712 | 122 list, like with |zW|. |
| 123 | |
| 124 :[count]spellu[ndo] {word} *:spellu* *:spellundo* | |
| 125 Like |zuw|. [count] used as with |:spellgood|. | |
| 126 | |
| 127 :spellu[ndo]! {word} Like |zuW|. [count] used as with |:spellgood|. | |
| 128 | |
| 383 | 129 |
| 359 | 130 After adding a word to 'spellfile' with the above commands its associated |
| 378 | 131 ".spl" file will automatically be updated and reloaded. If you change |
| 132 'spellfile' manually you need to use the |:mkspell| command. This sequence of | |
| 133 commands mostly works well: > | |
| 386 | 134 :edit <file in 'spellfile'> |
| 359 | 135 < (make changes to the spell file) > |
| 136 :mkspell! % | |
| 137 | |
| 138 More details about the 'spellfile' format below |spell-wordlist-format|. | |
| 314 | 139 |
| 386 | 140 *internal-wordlist* |
| 383 | 141 The internal word list is used for all buffers where 'spell' is set. It is |
| 142 not stored, it is lost when you exit Vim. It is also cleared when 'encoding' | |
| 143 is set. | |
| 144 | |
| 314 | 145 |
| 323 | 146 Finding suggestions for bad words: |
| 587 | 147 *z=* |
| 148 z= For the word under/after the cursor suggest correctly | |
| 378 | 149 spelled words. This also works to find alternatives |
| 150 for a word that is not highlighted as a bad word, | |
| 151 e.g., when the word after it is bad. | |
| 642 | 152 In Visual mode the highlighted text is taken as the |
| 153 word to be replaced. | |
| 154 The results are sorted on similarity to the word being | |
| 155 replaced. | |
| 488 | 156 This may take a long time. Hit CTRL-C when you get |
| 323 | 157 bored. |
| 488 | 158 |
| 159 If the command is used without a count the | |
| 160 alternatives are listed and you can enter the number | |
| 161 of your choice or press <Enter> if you don't want to | |
| 162 replace. You can also use the mouse to click on your | |
| 163 choice (only works if the mouse can be used in Normal | |
| 164 mode and when there are no line wraps). Click on the | |
| 165 first line (the header) to cancel. | |
| 166 | |
| 838 | 167 The suggestions listed normally replace a highlighted |
| 168 bad word. Sometimes they include other text, in that | |
| 169 case the replaced text is also listed after a "<". | |
| 170 | |
| 488 | 171 If a count is used that suggestion is used, without |
| 587 | 172 prompting. For example, "1z=" always takes the first |
| 488 | 173 suggestion. |
| 174 | |
| 175 If 'verbose' is non-zero a score will be displayed | |
| 176 with the suggestions to indicate the likeliness to the | |
| 177 badly spelled word (the higher the score the more | |
| 178 different). | |
| 344 | 179 When a word was replaced the redo command "." will |
| 180 repeat the word replacement. This works like "ciw", | |
| 493 | 181 the good word and <Esc>. This does NOT work for Thai |
| 182 and other languages without spaces between words. | |
| 344 | 183 |
| 374 | 184 *:spellr* *:spellrepall* *E752* *E753* |
| 587 | 185 :spellr[epall] Repeat the replacement done by |z=| for all matches |
| 374 | 186 with the replaced word in the current window. |
| 187 | |
| 477 | 188 In Insert mode, when the cursor is after a badly spelled word, you can use |
| 189 CTRL-X s to find suggestions. This works like Insert mode completion. Use | |
| 190 CTRL-N to use the next suggestion, CTRL-P to go back. |i_CTRL-X_s| | |
| 191 | |
| 344 | 192 The 'spellsuggest' option influences how the list of suggestions is generated |
| 193 and sorted. See |'spellsuggest'|. | |
| 323 | 194 |
| 386 | 195 The 'spellcapcheck' option is used to check the first word of a sentence |
| 196 starts with a capital. This doesn't work for the first word in the file. | |
| 197 When there is a line break right after a sentence the highlighting of the next | |
| 480 | 198 line may be postponed. Use |CTRL-L| when needed. Also see |set-spc-auto| for |
| 199 how it can be set automatically when 'spelllang' is set. | |
| 386 | 200 |
| 625 | 201 Vim counts the number of times a good word is encountered. This is used to |
| 202 sort the suggestions: words that have been seen before get a small bonus, | |
| 203 words that have been seen often get a bigger bonus. The COMMON item in the | |
| 204 affix file can be used to define common words, so that this mechanism also | |
| 205 works in a new or short file |spell-COMMON|. | |
| 206 | |
| 378 | 207 ============================================================================== |
| 208 2. Remarks on spell checking *spell-remarks* | |
| 323 | 209 |
| 227 | 210 PERFORMANCE |
| 211 | |
| 378 | 212 Vim does on-the-fly spell checking. To make this work fast the word list is |
| 213 loaded in memory. Thus this uses a lot of memory (1 Mbyte or more). There | |
| 214 might also be a noticeable delay when the word list is loaded, which happens | |
| 215 when 'spell' is set and when 'spelllang' is set while 'spell' was already set. | |
| 216 To minimize the delay each word list is only loaded once, it is not deleted | |
| 217 when 'spelllang' is made empty or 'spell' is reset. When 'encoding' is set | |
| 218 all the word lists are reloaded, thus you may notice a delay then too. | |
| 227 | 219 |
| 220 | |
| 221 | 221 REGIONS |
| 222 | |
| 223 A word may be spelled differently in various regions. For example, English | |
| 224 comes in (at least) these variants: | |
| 225 | |
| 226 en all regions | |
| 247 | 227 en_au Australia |
| 228 en_ca Canada | |
| 221 | 229 en_gb Great Britain |
| 247 | 230 en_nz New Zealand |
| 231 en_us USA | |
| 221 | 232 |
| 233 Words that are not used in one region but are used in another region are | |
| 333 | 234 highlighted with SpellLocal |hl-SpellLocal|. |
| 221 | 235 |
| 237 | 236 Always use lowercase letters for the language and region names. |
| 221 | 237 |
| 320 | 238 When adding a word with |zg| or another command it's always added for all |
| 239 regions. You can change that by manually editing the 'spellfile'. See | |
| 389 | 240 |spell-wordlist-format|. Note that the regions as specified in the files in |
| 564 | 241 'spellfile' are only used when all entries in 'spelllang' specify the same |
| 389 | 242 region (not counting files specified by their .spl name). |
| 320 | 243 |
| 482 | 244 *spell-german* |
| 481 | 245 Specific exception: For German these special regions are used: |
| 246 de all German words accepted | |
| 247 de_de old and new spelling | |
| 248 de_19 old spelling | |
| 249 de_20 new spelling | |
| 250 de_at Austria | |
| 251 de_ch Switzerland | |
| 252 | |
| 504 | 253 *spell-russian* |
| 254 Specific exception: For Russian these special regions are used: | |
| 255 ru all Russian words accepted | |
| 256 ru_ru "IE" letter spelling | |
| 257 ru_yo "YO" letter spelling | |
| 258 | |
| 482 | 259 *spell-yiddish* |
| 260 Yiddish requires using "utf-8" encoding, because of the special characters | |
| 261 used. If you are using latin1 Vim will use transliterated (romanized) Yiddish | |
| 262 instead. If you want to use transliterated Yiddish with utf-8 use "yi-tr". | |
| 263 In a table: | |
| 264 'encoding' 'spelllang' | |
| 265 utf-8 yi Yiddish | |
| 266 latin1 yi transliterated Yiddish | |
| 267 utf-8 yi-tr transliterated Yiddish | |
| 268 | |
| 5477 | 269 *spell-cjk* |
| 270 Chinese, Japanese and other East Asian characters are normally marked as | |
| 271 errors, because spell checking of these characters is not supported. If | |
| 272 'spelllang' includes "cjk", these characters are not marked as errors. This | |
| 273 is useful when editing text with spell checking while some Asian words are | |
| 274 present. | |
| 275 | |
| 221 | 276 |
| 353 | 277 SPELL FILES *spell-load* |
| 221 | 278 |
| 279 Vim searches for spell files in the "spell" subdirectory of the directories in | |
| 320 | 280 'runtimepath'. The name is: LL.EEE.spl, where: |
| 237 | 281 LL the language name |
| 282 EEE the value of 'encoding' | |
| 221 | 283 |
| 353 | 284 The value for "LL" comes from 'spelllang', but excludes the region name. |
| 285 Examples: | |
| 286 'spelllang' LL ~ | |
| 287 en_us en | |
| 288 en-rare en-rare | |
| 289 medical_ca medical | |
| 290 | |
| 320 | 291 Only the first file is loaded, the one that is first in 'runtimepath'. If |
| 292 this succeeds then additionally files with the name LL.EEE.add.spl are loaded. | |
| 293 All the ones that are found are used. | |
| 294 | |
| 651 | 295 If no spell file is found the |SpellFileMissing| autocommand event is |
| 296 triggered. This may trigger the |spellfile.vim| plugin to offer you | |
| 297 downloading the spell file. | |
| 298 | |
| 386 | 299 Additionally, the files related to the names in 'spellfile' are loaded. These |
| 300 are the files that |zg| and |zw| add good and wrong words to. | |
| 353 | 301 |
| 242 | 302 Exceptions: |
| 303 - Vim uses "latin1" when 'encoding' is "iso-8859-15". The euro sign doesn't | |
| 304 matter for spelling. | |
| 305 - When no spell file for 'encoding' is found "ascii" is tried. This only | |
| 306 works for languages where nearly all words are ASCII, such as English. It | |
| 307 helps when 'encoding' is not "latin1", such as iso-8859-2, and English text | |
| 320 | 308 is being edited. For the ".add" files the same name as the found main |
| 309 spell file is used. | |
| 310 | |
| 311 For example, with these values: | |
| 16023 | 312 'runtimepath' is "~/.vim,/usr/share/vim81,~/.vim/after" |
| 320 | 313 'encoding' is "iso-8859-2" |
| 314 'spelllang' is "pl" | |
| 315 | |
| 316 Vim will look for: | |
| 317 1. ~/.vim/spell/pl.iso-8859-2.spl | |
| 16023 | 318 2. /usr/share/vim81/spell/pl.iso-8859-2.spl |
| 320 | 319 3. ~/.vim/spell/pl.iso-8859-2.add.spl |
| 16023 | 320 4. /usr/share/vim81/spell/pl.iso-8859-2.add.spl |
| 320 | 321 5. ~/.vim/after/spell/pl.iso-8859-2.add.spl |
| 322 | |
| 323 This assumes 1. is not found and 2. is found. | |
| 324 | |
| 325 If 'encoding' is "latin1" Vim will look for: | |
| 326 1. ~/.vim/spell/pl.latin1.spl | |
| 16023 | 327 2. /usr/share/vim81/spell/pl.latin1.spl |
| 320 | 328 3. ~/.vim/after/spell/pl.latin1.spl |
| 329 4. ~/.vim/spell/pl.ascii.spl | |
| 16023 | 330 5. /usr/share/vim81/spell/pl.ascii.spl |
| 320 | 331 6. ~/.vim/after/spell/pl.ascii.spl |
| 332 | |
| 333 This assumes none of them are found (Polish doesn't make sense when leaving | |
| 334 out the non-ASCII characters). | |
| 221 | 335 |
| 227 | 336 Spelling for EBCDIC is currently not supported. |
| 337 | |
| 237 | 338 A spell file might not be available in the current 'encoding'. See |
| 339 |spell-mkspell| about how to create a spell file. Converting a spell file | |
| 242 | 340 with "iconv" will NOT work! |
| 221 | 341 |
| 2662 | 342 Note: on VMS ".{enc}.spl" is changed to "_{enc}.spl" to avoid trouble with |
| 343 filenames. | |
| 344 | |
| 626 | 345 *spell-sug-file* *E781* |
| 625 | 346 If there is a file with exactly the same name as the ".spl" file but ending in |
| 347 ".sug", that file will be used for giving better suggestions. It isn't loaded | |
| 348 before suggestions are made to reduce memory use. | |
| 349 | |
| 626 | 350 *E758* *E759* *E778* *E779* *E780* *E782* |
| 237 | 351 When loading a spell file Vim checks that it is properly formatted. If you |
| 242 | 352 get an error the file may be truncated, modified or intended for another Vim |
| 353 version. | |
| 237 | 354 |
| 227 | 355 |
| 712 | 356 SPELLFILE CLEANUP *spellfile-cleanup* |
| 357 | |
| 358 The |zw| command turns existing entries in 'spellfile' into comment lines. | |
| 359 This avoids having to write a new file every time, but results in the file | |
| 360 only getting longer, never shorter. To clean up the comment lines in all | |
| 361 ".add" spell files do this: > | |
| 362 :runtime spell/cleanadd.vim | |
| 363 | |
| 364 This deletes all comment lines, except the ones that start with "##". Use | |
| 365 "##" lines to add comments that you want to keep. | |
| 366 | |
| 367 You can invoke this script as often as you like. A variable is provided to | |
| 368 skip updating files that have been changed recently. Set it to the number of | |
| 369 seconds that has passed since a file was changed before it will be cleaned. | |
| 370 For example, to clean only files that were not changed in the last hour: > | |
| 371 let g:spell_clean_limit = 60 * 60 | |
| 372 The default is one second. | |
| 373 | |
| 374 | |
| 227 | 375 WORDS |
| 376 | |
| 377 Vim uses a fixed method to recognize a word. This is independent of | |
| 378 'iskeyword', so that it also works in help files and for languages that | |
| 379 include characters like '-' in 'iskeyword'. The word characters do depend on | |
| 380 'encoding'. | |
| 381 | |
| 323 | 382 The table with word characters is stored in the main .spl file. Therefore it |
| 383 matters what the current locale is when generating it! A .add.spl file does | |
| 359 | 384 not contain a word table though. |
| 323 | 385 |
| 842 | 386 For a word that starts with a digit the digit is ignored, unless the word as a |
| 387 whole is recognized. Thus if "3D" is a word and "D" is not then "3D" is | |
| 388 recognized as a word, but if "3D" is not a word then only the "D" is marked as | |
| 389 bad. Hex numbers in the form 0x12ab and 0X12AB are recognized. | |
| 227 | 390 |
| 391 | |
| 348 | 392 WORD COMBINATIONS |
| 393 | |
| 394 It is possible to spell-check words that include a space. This is used to | |
| 395 recognize words that are invalid when used by themselves, e.g. for "et al.". | |
| 396 It can also be used to recognize "the the" and highlight it. | |
| 397 | |
| 398 The number of spaces is irrelevant. In most cases a line break may also | |
| 399 appear. However, this makes it difficult to find out where to start checking | |
| 400 for spelling mistakes. When you make a change to one line and only that line | |
| 401 is redrawn Vim won't look in the previous line, thus when "et" is at the end | |
| 402 of the previous line "al." will be flagged as an error. And when you type | |
| 403 "the<CR>the" the highlighting doesn't appear until the first line is redrawn. | |
| 404 Use |CTRL-L| to redraw right away. "[s" will also stop at a word combination | |
| 405 with a line break. | |
| 406 | |
| 407 When encountering a line break Vim skips characters such as '*', '>' and '"', | |
| 408 so that comments in C, shell and Vim code can be spell checked. | |
| 409 | |
| 410 | |
| 253 | 411 SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING *spell-syntax* |
| 227 | 412 |
| 413 Files that use syntax highlighting can specify where spell checking should be | |
| 414 done: | |
| 415 | |
| 320 | 416 1. everywhere default |
| 417 2. in specific items use "contains=@Spell" | |
| 418 3. everywhere but specific items use "contains=@NoSpell" | |
| 227 | 419 |
| 320 | 420 For the second method adding the @NoSpell cluster will disable spell checking |
| 421 again. This can be used, for example, to add @Spell to the comments of a | |
| 422 program, and add @NoSpell for items that shouldn't be checked. | |
| 1125 | 423 Also see |:syn-spell| for text that is not in a syntax item. |
| 227 | 424 |
| 348 | 425 |
| 426 VIM SCRIPTS | |
| 427 | |
| 428 If you want to write a Vim script that does something with spelling, you may | |
| 429 find these functions useful: | |
| 430 | |
| 431 spellbadword() find badly spelled word at the cursor | |
| 432 spellsuggest() get list of spelling suggestions | |
| 378 | 433 soundfold() get the sound-a-like version of a word |
| 348 | 434 |
| 480 | 435 |
| 436 SETTING 'spellcapcheck' AUTOMATICALLY *set-spc-auto* | |
| 437 | |
| 438 After the 'spelllang' option has been set successfully, Vim will source the | |
| 439 files "spell/LANG.vim" in 'runtimepath'. "LANG" is the value of 'spelllang' | |
| 440 up to the first comma, dot or underscore. This can be used to set options | |
| 441 specifically for the language, especially 'spellcapcheck'. | |
| 442 | |
| 443 The distribution includes a few of these files. Use this command to see what | |
| 444 they do: > | |
| 445 :next $VIMRUNTIME/spell/*.vim | |
| 446 | |
| 447 Note that the default scripts don't set 'spellcapcheck' if it was changed from | |
| 448 the default value. This assumes the user prefers another value then. | |
| 449 | |
| 481 | 450 |
| 451 DOUBLE SCORING *spell-double-scoring* | |
| 452 | |
| 453 The 'spellsuggest' option can be used to select "double" scoring. This | |
| 454 mechanism is based on the principle that there are two kinds of spelling | |
| 455 mistakes: | |
| 456 | |
| 457 1. You know how to spell the word, but mistype something. This results in a | |
| 458 small editing distance (character swapped/omitted/inserted) and possibly a | |
| 459 word that sounds completely different. | |
| 460 | |
| 461 2. You don't know how to spell the word and type something that sounds right. | |
| 462 The edit distance can be big but the word is similar after sound-folding. | |
| 463 | |
| 464 Since scores for these two mistakes will be very different we use a list | |
| 465 for each and mix them. | |
| 466 | |
| 467 The sound-folding is slow and people that know the language won't make the | |
| 468 second kind of mistakes. Therefore 'spellsuggest' can be set to select the | |
| 469 preferred method for scoring the suggestions. | |
| 470 | |
| 221 | 471 ============================================================================== |
| 378 | 472 3. Generating a spell file *spell-mkspell* |
| 237 | 473 |
| 474 Vim uses a binary file format for spelling. This greatly speeds up loading | |
| 475 the word list and keeps it small. | |
| 371 | 476 *.aff* *.dic* *Myspell* |
| 237 | 477 You can create a Vim spell file from the .aff and .dic files that Myspell |
| 11473 | 478 uses. Myspell is used by OpenOffice.org and Mozilla. The OpenOffice .oxt |
| 2152 | 479 files are zip files which contain the .aff and .dic files. You should be able |
| 480 to find them here: | |
| 481 http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/dictionary | |
| 482 The older, OpenOffice 2 files may be used if this doesn't work: | |
| 1125 | 483 http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries |
| 348 | 484 You can also use a plain word list. The results are the same, the choice |
| 378 | 485 depends on what word lists you can find. |
| 221 | 486 |
| 388 | 487 If you install Aap (from www.a-a-p.org) you can use the recipes in the |
| 488 runtime/spell/??/ directories. Aap will take care of downloading the files, | |
| 489 apply patches needed for Vim and build the .spl file. | |
| 490 | |
| 341 | 491 Make sure your current locale is set properly, otherwise Vim doesn't know what |
| 492 characters are upper/lower case letters. If the locale isn't available (e.g., | |
| 493 when using an MS-Windows codepage on Unix) add tables to the .aff file | |
| 353 | 494 |spell-affix-chars|. If the .aff file doesn't define a table then the word |
| 495 table of the currently active spelling is used. If spelling is not active | |
| 496 then Vim will try to guess. | |
| 341 | 497 |
| 353 | 498 *:mksp* *:mkspell* |
| 499 :mksp[ell][!] [-ascii] {outname} {inname} ... | |
| 564 | 500 Generate a Vim spell file from word lists. Example: > |
| 378 | 501 :mkspell /tmp/nl nl_NL.words |
| 353 | 502 < *E751* |
| 314 | 503 When {outname} ends in ".spl" it is used as the output |
| 504 file name. Otherwise it should be a language name, | |
| 353 | 505 such as "en", without the region name. The file |
| 506 written will be "{outname}.{encoding}.spl", where | |
| 507 {encoding} is the value of the 'encoding' option. | |
| 301 | 508 |
| 378 | 509 When the output file already exists [!] must be used |
| 333 | 510 to overwrite it. |
| 511 | |
| 242 | 512 When the [-ascii] argument is present, words with |
| 513 non-ascii characters are skipped. The resulting file | |
| 314 | 514 ends in "ascii.spl". |
| 301 | 515 |
| 516 The input can be the Myspell format files {inname}.aff | |
| 517 and {inname}.dic. If {inname}.aff does not exist then | |
| 518 {inname} is used as the file name of a plain word | |
| 519 list. | |
| 520 | |
| 237 | 521 Multiple {inname} arguments can be given to combine |
| 522 regions into one Vim spell file. Example: > | |
| 523 :mkspell ~/.vim/spell/en /tmp/en_US /tmp/en_CA /tmp/en_AU | |
| 524 < This combines the English word lists for US, CA and AU | |
| 525 into one en.spl file. | |
| 819 | 526 Up to eight regions can be combined. *E754* *E755* |
| 323 | 527 The REP and SAL items of the first .aff file where |
| 493 | 528 they appear are used. |spell-REP| |spell-SAL| |
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| 348 | 530 This command uses a lot of memory, required to find |
| 484 | 531 the optimal word tree (Polish, Italian and Hungarian |
| 532 require several hundred Mbyte). The final result will | |
| 533 be much smaller, because compression is used. To | |
| 534 avoid running out of memory compression will be done | |
| 535 now and then. This can be tuned with the 'mkspellmem' | |
| 536 option. | |
| 348 | 537 |
| 378 | 538 After the spell file was written and it was being used |
| 539 in a buffer it will be reloaded automatically. | |
| 308 | 540 |
| 371 | 541 :mksp[ell] [-ascii] {name}.{enc}.add |
| 542 Like ":mkspell" above, using {name}.{enc}.add as the | |
| 378 | 543 input file and producing an output file in the same |
| 544 directory that has ".spl" appended. | |
| 371 | 545 |
| 546 :mksp[ell] [-ascii] {name} | |
| 547 Like ":mkspell" above, using {name} as the input file | |
| 378 | 548 and producing an output file in the same directory |
| 549 that has ".{enc}.spl" appended. | |
| 314 | 550 |
| 481 | 551 Vim will report the number of duplicate words. This might be a mistake in the |
| 552 list of words. But sometimes it is used to have different prefixes and | |
| 553 suffixes for the same basic word to avoid them combining (e.g. Czech uses | |
| 484 | 554 this). If you want Vim to report all duplicate words set the 'verbose' |
| 555 option. | |
| 481 | 556 |
| 314 | 557 Since you might want to change a Myspell word list for use with Vim the |
| 558 following procedure is recommended: | |
| 237 | 559 |
| 560 1. Obtain the xx_YY.aff and xx_YY.dic files from Myspell. | |
| 561 2. Make a copy of these files to xx_YY.orig.aff and xx_YY.orig.dic. | |
| 562 3. Change the xx_YY.aff and xx_YY.dic files to remove bad words, add missing | |
| 258 | 563 words, define word characters with FOL/LOW/UPP, etc. The distributed |
| 1125 | 564 "*.diff" files can be used. |
| 378 | 565 4. Start Vim with the right locale and use |:mkspell| to generate the Vim |
| 566 spell file. | |
| 567 5. Try out the spell file with ":set spell spelllang=xx" if you wrote it in | |
| 388 | 568 a spell directory in 'runtimepath', or ":set spelllang=xx.enc.spl" if you |
| 378 | 569 wrote it somewhere else. |
| 221 | 570 |
| 237 | 571 When the Myspell files are updated you can merge the differences: |
| 258 | 572 1. Obtain the new Myspell files as xx_YY.new.aff and xx_UU.new.dic. |
| 573 2. Use Vimdiff to see what changed: > | |
| 237 | 574 vimdiff xx_YY.orig.dic xx_YY.new.dic |
| 258 | 575 3. Take over the changes you like in xx_YY.dic. |
| 237 | 576 You may also need to change xx_YY.aff. |
| 15512 | 577 4. Rename xx_YY.new.dic to xx_YY.orig.dic and xx_YY.new.aff to xx_YY.orig.aff. |
| 237 | 578 |
| 353 | 579 |
| 484 | 580 SPELL FILE VERSIONS *E770* *E771* *E772* |
| 581 | |
| 582 Spell checking is a relatively new feature in Vim, thus it's possible that the | |
| 583 .spl file format will be changed to support more languages. Vim will check | |
| 584 the validity of the spell file and report anything wrong. | |
| 585 | |
| 586 E771: Old spell file, needs to be updated ~ | |
| 587 This spell file is older than your Vim. You need to update the .spl file. | |
| 588 | |
| 589 E772: Spell file is for newer version of Vim ~ | |
| 590 This means the spell file was made for a later version of Vim. You need to | |
| 591 update Vim. | |
| 592 | |
| 593 E770: Unsupported section in spell file ~ | |
| 594 This means the spell file was made for a later version of Vim and contains a | |
| 595 section that is required for the spell file to work. In this case it's | |
| 596 probably a good idea to upgrade your Vim. | |
| 597 | |
| 598 | |
| 353 | 599 SPELL FILE DUMP |
| 600 | |
| 601 If for some reason you want to check what words are supported by the currently | |
| 602 used spelling files, use this command: | |
| 603 | |
| 604 *:spelldump* *:spelld* | |
| 605 :spelld[ump] Open a new window and fill it with all currently valid | |
| 500 | 606 words. Compound words are not included. |
| 378 | 607 Note: For some languages the result may be enormous, |
| 608 causing Vim to run out of memory. | |
| 353 | 609 |
| 625 | 610 :spelld[ump]! Like ":spelldump" and include the word count. This is |
| 611 the number of times the word was found while | |
| 612 updating the screen. Words that are in COMMON items | |
| 613 get a starting count of 10. | |
| 614 | |
| 353 | 615 The format of the word list is used |spell-wordlist-format|. You should be |
| 616 able to read it with ":mkspell" to generate one .spl file that includes all | |
| 617 the words. | |
| 618 | |
| 383 | 619 When all entries to 'spelllang' use the same regions or no regions at all then |
| 620 the region information is included in the dumped words. Otherwise only words | |
| 621 for the current region are included and no "/regions" line is generated. | |
| 353 | 622 |
| 378 | 623 Comment lines with the name of the .spl file are used as a header above the |
| 624 words that were generated from that .spl file. | |
| 353 | 625 |
| 651 | 626 |
| 627 SPELL FILE MISSING *spell-SpellFileMissing* *spellfile.vim* | |
| 628 | |
| 629 If the spell file for the language you are using is not available, you will | |
| 630 get an error message. But if the "spellfile.vim" plugin is active it will | |
| 631 offer you to download the spell file. Just follow the instructions, it will | |
| 1622 | 632 ask you where to write the file (there must be a writable directory in |
| 633 'runtimepath' for this). | |
| 651 | 634 |
| 635 The plugin has a default place where to look for spell files, on the Vim ftp | |
| 636 server. If you want to use another location or another protocol, set the | |
| 637 g:spellfile_URL variable to the directory that holds the spell files. The | |
| 1219 | 638 |netrw| plugin is used for getting the file, look there for the specific |
| 651 | 639 syntax of the URL. Example: > |
| 640 let g:spellfile_URL = 'http://ftp.vim.org/vim/runtime/spell' | |
| 641 You may need to escape special characters. | |
| 642 | |
| 643 The plugin will only ask about downloading a language once. If you want to | |
| 644 try again anyway restart Vim, or set g:spellfile_URL to another value (e.g., | |
| 645 prepend a space). | |
| 646 | |
| 647 To avoid using the "spellfile.vim" plugin do this in your vimrc file: > | |
| 648 | |
| 649 let loaded_spellfile_plugin = 1 | |
| 650 | |
| 651 Instead of using the plugin you can define a |SpellFileMissing| autocommand to | |
| 652 handle the missing file yourself. You can use it like this: > | |
| 653 | |
| 654 :au SpellFileMissing * call Download_spell_file(expand('<amatch>')) | |
| 655 | |
| 656 Thus the <amatch> item contains the name of the language. Another important | |
| 657 value is 'encoding', since every encoding has its own spell file. With two | |
| 658 exceptions: | |
| 659 - For ISO-8859-15 (latin9) the name "latin1" is used (the encodings only | |
| 660 differ in characters not used in dictionary words). | |
| 661 - The name "ascii" may also be used for some languages where the words use | |
| 662 only ASCII letters for most of the words. | |
| 663 | |
| 664 The default "spellfile.vim" plugin uses this autocommand, if you define your | |
| 1125 | 665 autocommand afterwards you may want to use ":au! SpellFileMissing" to overrule |
| 651 | 666 it. If you define your autocommand before the plugin is loaded it will notice |
| 667 this and not do anything. | |
| 1219 | 668 *E797* |
| 669 Note that the SpellFileMissing autocommand must not change or destroy the | |
| 670 buffer the user was editing. | |
| 651 | 671 |
| 237 | 672 ============================================================================== |
| 378 | 673 4. Spell file format *spell-file-format* |
| 237 | 674 |
| 675 This is the format of the files that are used by the person who creates and | |
| 676 maintains a word list. | |
| 221 | 677 |
| 237 | 678 Note that we avoid the word "dictionary" here. That is because the goal of |
| 679 spell checking differs from writing a dictionary (as in the book). For | |
| 564 | 680 spelling we need a list of words that are OK, thus should not be highlighted. |
| 681 Person and company names will not appear in a dictionary, but do appear in a | |
| 682 word list. And some old words are rarely used while they are common | |
| 683 misspellings. These do appear in a dictionary but not in a word list. | |
| 237 | 684 |
| 388 | 685 There are two formats: A straight list of words and a list using affix |
| 378 | 686 compression. The files with affix compression are used by Myspell (Mozilla |
| 687 and OpenOffice.org). This requires two files, one with .aff and one with .dic | |
| 688 extension. | |
| 301 | 689 |
| 690 | |
| 378 | 691 FORMAT OF STRAIGHT WORD LIST *spell-wordlist-format* |
| 301 | 692 |
| 314 | 693 The words must appear one per line. That is all that is required. |
| 378 | 694 |
| 314 | 695 Additionally the following items are recognized: |
| 378 | 696 |
| 301 | 697 - Empty and blank lines are ignored. |
| 378 | 698 |
| 625 | 699 # comment ~ |
| 301 | 700 - Lines starting with a # are ignored (comment lines). |
| 378 | 701 |
| 625 | 702 /encoding=utf-8 ~ |
| 308 | 703 - A line starting with "/encoding=", before any word, specifies the encoding |
| 704 of the file. After the second '=' comes an encoding name. This tells Vim | |
| 378 | 705 to setup conversion from the specified encoding to 'encoding'. Thus you can |
| 706 use one word list for several target encodings. | |
| 707 | |
| 625 | 708 /regions=usca ~ |
| 320 | 709 - A line starting with "/regions=" specifies the region names that are |
| 710 supported. Each region name must be two ASCII letters. The first one is | |
| 711 region 1. Thus "/regions=usca" has region 1 "us" and region 2 "ca". | |
| 378 | 712 In an addition word list the region names should be equal to the main word |
| 713 list! | |
| 714 | |
| 314 | 715 - Other lines starting with '/' are reserved for future use. The ones that |
| 625 | 716 are not recognized are ignored. You do get a warning message, so that you |
| 717 know something won't work. | |
| 301 | 718 |
| 383 | 719 - A "/" may follow the word with the following items: |
| 856 | 720 = Case must match exactly. |
| 383 | 721 ? Rare word. |
| 722 ! Bad (wrong) word. | |
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| 856 | 724 specified the word is valid in all regions. |
| 383 | 725 |
| 320 | 726 Example: |
| 727 | |
| 728 # This is an example word list comment | |
| 729 /encoding=latin1 encoding of the file | |
| 730 /regions=uscagb regions "us", "ca" and "gb" | |
| 731 example word for all regions | |
| 383 | 732 blah/12 word for regions "us" and "ca" |
| 733 vim/! bad word | |
| 734 Campbell/?3 rare word in region 3 "gb" | |
| 735 's mornings/= keep-case word | |
| 320 | 736 |
| 389 | 737 Note that when "/=" is used the same word with all upper-case letters is not |
| 738 accepted. This is different from a word with mixed case that is automatically | |
| 739 marked as keep-case, those words may appear in all upper-case letters. | |
| 740 | |
| 301 | 741 |
| 820 | 742 FORMAT WITH .AFF AND .DIC FILES *aff-dic-format* |
| 301 | 743 |
| 625 | 744 There are two files: the basic word list and an affix file. The affix file |
| 745 specifies settings for the language and can contain affixes. The affixes are | |
| 237 | 746 used to modify the basic words to get the full word list. This significantly |
| 747 reduces the number of words, especially for a language like Polish. This is | |
| 748 called affix compression. | |
| 221 | 749 |
| 625 | 750 The basic word list and the affix file are combined with the ":mkspell" |
| 751 command and results in a binary spell file. All the preprocessing has been | |
| 752 done, thus this file loads fast. The binary spell file format is described in | |
| 753 the source code (src/spell.c). But only developers need to know about it. | |
| 221 | 754 |
| 237 | 755 The preprocessing also allows us to take the Myspell language files and modify |
| 756 them before the Vim word list is made. The tools for this can be found in the | |
| 757 "src/spell" directory. | |
| 758 | |
| 493 | 759 The format for the affix and word list files is based on what Myspell uses |
| 760 (the spell checker of Mozilla and OpenOffice.org). A description can be found | |
| 761 here: | |
| 762 http://lingucomponent.openoffice.org/affix.readme ~ | |
| 763 Note that affixes are case sensitive, this isn't obvious from the description. | |
| 764 | |
| 765 Vim supports quite a few extras. They are described below |spell-affix-vim|. | |
| 766 Attempts have been made to keep this compatible with other spell checkers, so | |
| 625 | 767 that the same files can often be used. One other project that offers more |
| 768 than Myspell is Hunspell ( http://hunspell.sf.net ). | |
| 493 | 769 |
| 237 | 770 |
| 320 | 771 WORD LIST FORMAT *spell-dic-format* |
| 237 | 772 |
| 625 | 773 A short example, with line numbers: |
| 221 | 774 |
| 625 | 775 1 1234 ~ |
| 776 2 aan ~ | |
| 777 3 Als ~ | |
| 778 4 Etten-Leur ~ | |
| 779 5 et al. ~ | |
| 780 6 's-Gravenhage ~ | |
| 781 7 's-Gravenhaags ~ | |
| 782 8 # word that differs between regions ~ | |
| 783 9 kado/1 ~ | |
| 784 10 cadeau/2 ~ | |
| 785 11 TCP,IP ~ | |
| 786 12 /the S affix may add a 's' ~ | |
| 787 13 bedel/S ~ | |
| 237 | 788 |
| 314 | 789 The first line contains the number of words. Vim ignores it, but you do get |
| 790 an error message if it's not there. *E760* | |
| 221 | 791 |
| 625 | 792 What follows is one word per line. White space at the end of the line is |
| 793 ignored, all other white space matters. The encoding is specified in the | |
| 794 affix file |spell-SET|. | |
| 795 | |
| 796 Comment lines start with '#' or '/'. See the example lines 8 and 12. Note | |
| 797 that putting a comment after a word is NOT allowed: | |
| 798 | |
| 799 someword # comment that causes an error! ~ | |
| 800 | |
| 801 After the word there is an optional slash and flags. Most of these flags are | |
| 802 letters that indicate the affixes that can be used with this word. These are | |
| 803 specified with SFX and PFX lines in the .aff file, see |spell-SFX| and | |
| 804 |spell-PFX|. Vim allows using other flag types with the FLAG item in the | |
| 805 affix file |spell-FLAG|. | |
| 237 | 806 |
| 807 When the word only has lower-case letters it will also match with the word | |
| 808 starting with an upper-case letter. | |
| 809 | |
| 810 When the word includes an upper-case letter, this means the upper-case letter | |
| 811 is required at this position. The same word with a lower-case letter at this | |
| 812 position will not match. When some of the other letters are upper-case it will | |
| 813 not match either. | |
| 814 | |
| 625 | 815 The word with all upper-case characters will always be OK, |
| 221 | 816 |
| 237 | 817 word list matches does not match ~ |
| 818 als als Als ALS ALs AlS aLs aLS | |
| 819 Als Als ALS als ALs AlS aLs aLS | |
| 820 ALS ALS als Als ALs AlS aLs aLS | |
| 821 AlS AlS ALS als Als ALs aLs aLS | |
| 221 | 822 |
| 624 | 823 The KEEPCASE affix ID can be used to specifically match a word with identical |
| 824 case only, see below |spell-KEEPCASE|. | |
| 308 | 825 |
| 625 | 826 Note: in line 5 to 7 non-word characters are used. You can include any |
| 827 character in a word. When checking the text a word still only matches when it | |
| 828 appears with a non-word character before and after it. For Myspell a word | |
| 829 starting with a non-word character probably won't work. | |
| 237 | 830 |
| 493 | 831 In line 12 the word "TCP/IP" is defined. Since the slash has a special |
| 832 meaning the comma is used instead. This is defined with the SLASH item in the | |
| 625 | 833 affix file, see |spell-SLASH|. Note that without this SLASH item the word |
| 834 will be "TCP,IP". | |
| 835 | |
| 836 | |
| 837 AFFIX FILE FORMAT *spell-aff-format* *spell-affix-vim* | |
| 493 | 838 |
| 625 | 839 *spell-affix-comment* |
| 840 Comment lines in the .aff file start with a '#': | |
| 841 | |
| 842 # comment line ~ | |
| 843 | |
| 1762 | 844 Items with a fixed number of arguments can be followed by a comment. But only |
| 845 if none of the arguments can contain white space. The comment must start with | |
| 846 a "#" character. Example: | |
| 847 | |
| 848 KEEPCASE = # fix case for words with this flag ~ | |
| 625 | 849 |
| 850 | |
| 851 ENCODING *spell-SET* | |
| 237 | 852 |
| 625 | 853 The affix file can be in any encoding that is supported by "iconv". However, |
| 854 in some cases the current locale should also be set properly at the time | |
| 855 |:mkspell| is invoked. Adding FOL/LOW/UPP lines removes this requirement | |
| 856 |spell-FOL|. | |
| 389 | 857 |
| 625 | 858 The encoding should be specified before anything where the encoding matters. |
| 859 The encoding applies both to the affix file and the dictionary file. It is | |
| 860 done with a SET line: | |
| 221 | 861 |
| 625 | 862 SET utf-8 ~ |
| 863 | |
| 864 The encoding can be different from the value of the 'encoding' option at the | |
| 865 time ":mkspell" is used. Vim will then convert everything to 'encoding' and | |
| 866 generate a spell file for 'encoding'. If some of the used characters to not | |
| 867 fit in 'encoding' you will get an error message. | |
| 237 | 868 *spell-affix-mbyte* |
| 625 | 869 When using a multi-byte encoding it's possible to use more different affix |
| 870 flags. But Myspell doesn't support that, thus you may not want to use it | |
| 871 anyway. For compatibility use an 8-bit encoding. | |
| 221 | 872 |
| 341 | 873 |
| 714 | 874 INFORMATION |
| 875 | |
| 876 These entries in the affix file can be used to add information to the spell | |
| 877 file. There are no restrictions on the format, but they should be in the | |
| 878 right encoding. | |
| 879 | |
| 880 *spell-NAME* *spell-VERSION* *spell-HOME* | |
| 881 *spell-AUTHOR* *spell-EMAIL* *spell-COPYRIGHT* | |
| 856 | 882 NAME Name of the language |
| 883 VERSION 1.0.1 with fixes | |
| 714 | 884 HOME http://www.myhome.eu |
| 885 AUTHOR John Doe | |
| 886 EMAIL john AT Doe DOT net | |
| 856 | 887 COPYRIGHT LGPL |
| 714 | 888 |
| 889 These fields are put in the .spl file as-is. The |:spellinfo| command can be | |
| 890 used to view the info. | |
| 891 | |
| 892 *:spellinfo* *:spelli* | |
| 893 :spelli[nfo] Display the information for the spell file(s) used for | |
| 894 the current buffer. | |
| 895 | |
| 896 | |
| 341 | 897 CHARACTER TABLES |
| 258 | 898 *spell-affix-chars* |
| 314 | 899 When using an 8-bit encoding the affix file should define what characters are |
| 625 | 900 word characters. This is because the system where ":mkspell" is used may not |
| 901 support a locale with this encoding and isalpha() won't work. For example | |
| 902 when using "cp1250" on Unix. | |
| 493 | 903 *E761* *E762* *spell-FOL* |
| 904 *spell-LOW* *spell-UPP* | |
| 258 | 905 Three lines in the affix file are needed. Simplistic example: |
| 906 | |
| 13563 | 907 FOL áëñ ~ |
| 908 LOW áëñ ~ | |
| 909 UPP ÁËÑ ~ | |
| 258 | 910 |
| 911 All three lines must have exactly the same number of characters. | |
| 912 | |
| 913 The "FOL" line specifies the case-folded characters. These are used to | |
| 914 compare words while ignoring case. For most encodings this is identical to | |
| 915 the lower case line. | |
| 916 | |
| 917 The "LOW" line specifies the characters in lower-case. Mostly it's equal to | |
| 918 the "FOL" line. | |
| 919 | |
| 920 The "UPP" line specifies the characters with upper-case. That is, a character | |
| 921 is upper-case where it's different from the character at the same position in | |
| 922 "FOL". | |
| 923 | |
| 13563 | 924 An exception is made for the German sharp s ß. The upper-case version is |
| 493 | 925 "SS". In the FOL/LOW/UPP lines it should be included, so that it's recognized |
| 13563 | 926 as a word character, but use the ß character in all three. |
| 493 | 927 |
| 258 | 928 ASCII characters should be omitted, Vim always handles these in the same way. |
| 929 When the encoding is UTF-8 no word characters need to be specified. | |
| 930 | |
| 931 *E763* | |
| 353 | 932 Vim allows you to use spell checking for several languages in the same file. |
| 933 You can list them in the 'spelllang' option. As a consequence all spell files | |
| 934 for the same encoding must use the same word characters, otherwise they can't | |
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| 353 | 943 |
| 944 The XX.ascii.spl spell file generated with the "-ascii" argument will not | |
| 945 contain the table with characters, so that it can be combine with spell files | |
| 946 for any encoding. The .add.spl files also do not contain the table. | |
| 258 | 947 |
| 341 | 948 |
| 371 | 949 MID-WORD CHARACTERS |
| 950 *spell-midword* | |
| 951 Some characters are only to be considered word characters if they are used in | |
| 952 between two ordinary word characters. An example is the single quote: It is | |
| 953 often used to put text in quotes, thus it can't be recognized as a word | |
| 954 character, but when it appears in between word characters it must be part of | |
| 955 the word. This is needed to detect a spelling error such as they'are. That | |
| 956 should be they're, but since "they" and "are" are words themselves that would | |
| 957 go unnoticed. | |
| 958 | |
| 625 | 959 These characters are defined with MIDWORD in the .aff file. Example: |
| 371 | 960 |
| 961 MIDWORD '- ~ | |
| 962 | |
| 963 | |
| 497 | 964 FLAG TYPES *spell-FLAG* |
| 965 | |
| 966 Flags are used to specify the affixes that can be used with a word and for | |
| 967 other properties of the word. Normally single-character flags are used. This | |
| 968 limits the number of possible flags, especially for 8-bit encodings. The FLAG | |
| 969 item can be used if more affixes are to be used. Possible values: | |
| 970 | |
| 971 FLAG long use two-character flags | |
| 972 FLAG num use numbers, from 1 up to 65000 | |
| 499 | 973 FLAG caplong use one-character flags without A-Z and two-character |
| 497 | 974 flags that start with A-Z |
| 975 | |
| 976 With "FLAG num" the numbers in a list of affixes need to be separated with a | |
| 977 comma: "234,2143,1435". This method is inefficient, but useful if the file is | |
| 978 generated with a program. | |
| 979 | |
| 499 | 980 When using "caplong" the two-character flags all start with a capital: "Aa", |
| 981 "B1", "BB", etc. This is useful to use one-character flags for the most | |
| 982 common items and two-character flags for uncommon items. | |
| 497 | 983 |
| 984 Note: When using utf-8 only characters up to 65000 may be used for flags. | |
| 985 | |
| 1762 | 986 Note: even when using "num" or "long" the number of flags available to |
| 987 compounding and prefixes is limited to about 250. | |
| 988 | |
| 497 | 989 |
| 341 | 990 AFFIXES |
| 493 | 991 *spell-PFX* *spell-SFX* |
| 341 | 992 The usual PFX (prefix) and SFX (suffix) lines are supported (see the Myspell |
| 371 | 993 documentation or the Aspell manual: |
| 994 http://aspell.net/man-html/Affix-Compression.html). | |
| 995 | |
| 625 | 996 Summary: |
| 997 SFX L Y 2 ~ | |
| 998 SFX L 0 re [^x] ~ | |
| 999 SFX L 0 ro x ~ | |
| 1000 | |
| 1001 The first line is a header and has four fields: | |
| 1002 SFX {flag} {combine} {count} | |
| 1003 | |
| 1004 {flag} The name used for the suffix. Mostly it's a single letter, | |
| 1005 but other characters can be used, see |spell-FLAG|. | |
| 1006 | |
| 1007 {combine} Can be 'Y' or 'N'. When 'Y' then the word plus suffix can | |
| 1008 also have a prefix. When 'N' then a prefix is not allowed. | |
| 1009 | |
| 1010 {count} The number of lines following. If this is wrong you will get | |
| 1011 an error message. | |
| 1012 | |
| 1013 For PFX the fields are exactly the same. | |
| 1014 | |
| 1015 The basic format for the following lines is: | |
| 809 | 1016 SFX {flag} {strip} {add} {condition} {extra} |
| 625 | 1017 |
| 1018 {flag} Must be the same as the {flag} used in the first line. | |
| 1019 | |
| 1020 {strip} Characters removed from the basic word. There is no check if | |
| 1021 the characters are actually there, only the length is used (in | |
| 1022 bytes). This better match the {condition}, otherwise strange | |
| 1023 things may happen. If the {strip} length is equal to or | |
| 1024 longer than the basic word the suffix won't be used. | |
| 1025 When {strip} is 0 (zero) then nothing is stripped. | |
| 1026 | |
| 1027 {add} Characters added to the basic word, after removing {strip}. | |
| 809 | 1028 Optionally there is a '/' followed by flags. The flags apply |
| 1029 to the word plus affix. See |spell-affix-flags| | |
| 625 | 1030 |
| 1031 {condition} A simplistic pattern. Only when this matches with a basic | |
| 1032 word will the suffix be used for that word. This is normally | |
| 1033 for using one suffix letter with different {add} and {strip} | |
| 1034 fields for words with different endings. | |
| 1035 When {condition} is a . (dot) there is no condition. | |
| 1036 The pattern may contain: | |
| 1037 - Literal characters. | |
| 1038 - A set of characters in []. [abc] matches a, b and c. | |
| 1039 A dash is allowed for a range [a-c], but this is | |
| 1040 Vim-specific. | |
| 1041 - A set of characters that starts with a ^, meaning the | |
| 1042 complement of the specified characters. [^abc] matches any | |
| 1043 character but a, b and c. | |
| 1044 | |
| 809 | 1045 {extra} Optional extra text: |
| 1046 # comment Comment is ignored | |
| 1047 - Hunspell uses this, ignored | |
| 1048 | |
| 625 | 1049 For PFX the fields are the same, but the {strip}, {add} and {condition} apply |
| 1050 to the start of the word. | |
| 1051 | |
| 1052 Note: Myspell ignores any extra text after the relevant info. Vim requires | |
| 1053 this text to start with a "#" so that mistakes don't go unnoticed. Example: | |
| 371 | 1054 |
| 1055 SFX F 0 in [^i]n # Spion > Spionin ~ | |
| 856 | 1056 SFX F 0 nen in # Bauerin > Bauerinnen ~ |
| 341 | 1057 |
| 6224 | 1058 However, to avoid lots of errors in affix files written for Myspell, you can |
| 1059 add the IGNOREEXTRA flag. | |
| 1060 | |
| 499 | 1061 Apparently Myspell allows an affix name to appear more than once. Since this |
| 1062 might also be a mistake, Vim checks for an extra "S". The affix files for | |
| 1063 Myspell that use this feature apparently have this flag. Example: | |
| 1064 | |
| 1065 SFX a Y 1 S ~ | |
| 1066 SFX a 0 an . ~ | |
| 1067 | |
| 1068 SFX a Y 2 S ~ | |
| 1069 SFX a 0 en . ~ | |
| 1070 SFX a 0 on . ~ | |
| 1071 | |
| 625 | 1072 |
| 1073 AFFIX FLAGS *spell-affix-flags* | |
| 1074 | |
| 1075 This is a feature that comes from Hunspell: The affix may specify flags. This | |
| 1076 works similar to flags specified on a basic word. The flags apply to the | |
| 820 | 1077 basic word plus the affix (but there are restrictions). Example: |
| 625 | 1078 |
| 1079 SFX S Y 1 ~ | |
| 1080 SFX S 0 s . ~ | |
| 1081 | |
| 1082 SFX A Y 1 ~ | |
| 1083 SFX A 0 able/S . ~ | |
| 1084 | |
| 1085 When the dictionary file contains "drink/AS" then these words are possible: | |
| 1086 | |
| 1087 drink | |
| 1088 drinks uses S suffix | |
| 1089 drinkable uses A suffix | |
| 1090 drinkables uses A suffix and then S suffix | |
| 1091 | |
| 1092 Generally the flags of the suffix are added to the flags of the basic word, | |
| 1093 both are used for the word plus suffix. But the flags of the basic word are | |
| 1094 only used once for affixes, except that both one prefix and one suffix can be | |
| 1095 used when both support combining. | |
| 1096 | |
| 1097 Specifically, the affix flags can be used for: | |
| 820 | 1098 - Suffixes on suffixes, as in the example above. This works once, thus you |
| 1099 can have two suffixes on a word (plus one prefix). | |
| 625 | 1100 - Making the word with the affix rare, by using the |spell-RARE| flag. |
| 1101 - Exclude the word with the affix from compounding, by using the | |
| 1102 |spell-COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG| flag. | |
| 819 | 1103 - Allow the word with the affix to be part of a compound word on the side of |
| 1104 the affix with the |spell-COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG|. | |
| 820 | 1105 - Use the NEEDCOMPOUND flag: word plus affix can only be used as part of a |
| 1106 compound word. |spell-NEEDCOMPOUND| | |
| 1107 - Compound flags: word plus affix can be part of a compound word at the end, | |
| 1108 middle, start, etc. The flags are combined with the flags of the basic | |
| 1109 word. |spell-compound| | |
| 1110 - NEEDAFFIX: another affix is needed to make a valid word. | |
| 1111 - CIRCUMFIX, as explained just below. | |
| 484 | 1112 |
| 820 | 1113 |
| 6224 | 1114 IGNOREEXTRA *spell-IGNOREEXTRA* |
| 1115 | |
| 1116 Normally Vim gives an error for an extra field that does not start with '#'. | |
| 1117 This avoids errors going unnoticed. However, some files created for Myspell | |
| 1118 or Hunspell may contain many entries with an extra field. Use the IGNOREEXTRA | |
| 1119 flag to avoid lots of errors. | |
| 1120 | |
| 1121 | |
| 820 | 1122 CIRCUMFIX *spell-CIRCUMFIX* |
| 1123 | |
| 1124 The CIRCUMFIX flag means a prefix and suffix must be added at the same time. | |
| 1125 If a prefix has the CIRCUMFIX flag than only suffixes with the CIRCUMFIX flag | |
| 1126 can be added, and the other way around. | |
| 1127 An alternative is to only specify the suffix, and give the that suffix two | |
| 1128 flags: The required prefix and the NEEDAFFIX flag. |spell-NEEDAFFIX| | |
| 1129 | |
| 1130 | |
| 856 | 1131 PFXPOSTPONE *spell-PFXPOSTPONE* |
| 820 | 1132 |
| 341 | 1133 When an affix file has very many prefixes that apply to many words it's not |
| 1134 possible to build the whole word list in memory. This applies to Hebrew (a | |
| 1135 list with all words is over a Gbyte). In that case applying prefixes must be | |
| 1136 postponed. This makes spell checking slower. It is indicated by this keyword | |
| 1137 in the .aff file: | |
| 1138 | |
| 1139 PFXPOSTPONE ~ | |
| 1140 | |
| 820 | 1141 Only prefixes without a chop string and without flags can be postponed. |
| 1142 Prefixes with a chop string or with flags will still be included in the word | |
| 1143 list. An exception if the chop string is one character and equal to the last | |
| 1144 character of the added string, but in lower case. Thus when the chop string | |
| 1145 is used to allow the following word to start with an upper case letter. | |
| 341 | 1146 |
| 481 | 1147 |
| 493 | 1148 WORDS WITH A SLASH *spell-SLASH* |
| 481 | 1149 |
| 1150 The slash is used in the .dic file to separate the basic word from the affix | |
| 640 | 1151 letters and other flags. Unfortunately, this means you cannot use a slash in |
| 5220 | 1152 a word. Thus "TCP/IP" is not a word but "TCP" with the flags "IP". To include |
| 640 | 1153 a slash in the word put a backslash before it: "TCP\/IP". In the rare case |
| 1154 you want to use a backslash inside a word you need to use two backslashes. | |
| 1155 Any other use of the backslash is reserved for future expansion. | |
| 481 | 1156 |
| 1157 | |
| 624 | 1158 KEEP-CASE WORDS *spell-KEEPCASE* |
| 481 | 1159 |
| 624 | 1160 In the affix file a KEEPCASE line can be used to define the affix name used |
| 1161 for keep-case words. Example: | |
| 308 | 1162 |
| 624 | 1163 KEEPCASE = ~ |
| 308 | 1164 |
| 625 | 1165 This flag is not supported by Myspell. It has the meaning that case matters. |
| 1166 This can be used if the word does not have the first letter in upper case at | |
| 1167 the start of a sentence. Example: | |
| 1168 | |
| 1169 word list matches does not match ~ | |
| 1170 's morgens/= 's morgens 'S morgens 's Morgens 'S MORGENS | |
| 1171 's Morgens 's Morgens 'S MORGENS 'S morgens 's morgens | |
| 1172 | |
| 1173 The flag can also be used to avoid that the word matches when it is in all | |
| 1174 upper-case letters. | |
| 308 | 1175 |
| 341 | 1176 |
| 624 | 1177 RARE WORDS *spell-RARE* |
| 481 | 1178 |
| 624 | 1179 In the affix file a RARE line can be used to define the affix name used for |
| 308 | 1180 rare words. Example: |
| 1181 | |
| 624 | 1182 RARE ? ~ |
| 308 | 1183 |
| 1184 Rare words are highlighted differently from bad words. This is to be used for | |
| 1185 words that are correct for the language, but are hardly ever used and could be | |
| 348 | 1186 a typing mistake anyway. When the same word is found as good it won't be |
| 1187 highlighted as rare. | |
| 1188 | |
| 819 | 1189 This flag can also be used on an affix, so that a basic word is not rare but |
| 1190 the basic word plus affix is rare |spell-affix-flags|. However, if the word | |
| 1191 also appears as a good word in another way (e.g., in another region) it won't | |
| 1192 be marked as rare. | |
| 1193 | |
| 348 | 1194 |
| 493 | 1195 BAD WORDS *spell-BAD* |
| 481 | 1196 |
| 348 | 1197 In the affix file a BAD line can be used to define the affix name used for |
| 1198 bad words. Example: | |
| 1199 | |
| 1200 BAD ! ~ | |
| 1201 | |
| 1202 This can be used to exclude words that would otherwise be good. For example | |
| 371 | 1203 "the the" in the .dic file: |
| 1204 | |
| 1205 the the/! ~ | |
| 1206 | |
| 1207 Once a word has been marked as bad it won't be undone by encountering the same | |
| 1208 word as good. | |
| 308 | 1209 |
| 625 | 1210 The flag also applies to the word with affixes, thus this can be used to mark |
| 1211 a whole bunch of related words as bad. | |
| 1212 | |
| 1762 | 1213 *spell-FORBIDDENWORD* |
| 1214 FORBIDDENWORD can be used just like BAD. For compatibility with Hunspell. | |
| 1215 | |
| 493 | 1216 *spell-NEEDAFFIX* |
| 484 | 1217 The NEEDAFFIX flag is used to require that a word is used with an affix. The |
| 625 | 1218 word itself is not a good word (unless there is an empty affix). Example: |
| 484 | 1219 |
| 1220 NEEDAFFIX + ~ | |
| 1221 | |
| 308 | 1222 |
| 493 | 1223 COMPOUND WORDS *spell-compound* |
| 481 | 1224 |
| 484 | 1225 A compound word is a longer word made by concatenating words that appear in |
| 1226 the .dic file. To specify which words may be concatenated a character is | |
| 1227 used. This character is put in the list of affixes after the word. We will | |
| 1228 call this character a flag here. Obviously these flags must be different from | |
| 1229 any affix IDs used. | |
| 481 | 1230 |
| 1231 *spell-COMPOUNDFLAG* | |
| 625 | 1232 The Myspell compatible method uses one flag, specified with COMPOUNDFLAG. All |
| 1233 words with this flag combine in any order. This means there is no control | |
| 484 | 1234 over which word comes first. Example: |
| 481 | 1235 COMPOUNDFLAG c ~ |
| 1236 | |
| 714 | 1237 *spell-COMPOUNDRULE* |
| 484 | 1238 A more advanced method to specify how compound words can be formed uses |
| 1239 multiple items with multiple flags. This is not compatible with Myspell 3.0. | |
| 1240 Let's start with an example: | |
| 714 | 1241 COMPOUNDRULE c+ ~ |
| 1242 COMPOUNDRULE se ~ | |
| 481 | 1243 |
| 484 | 1244 The first line defines that words with the "c" flag can be concatenated in any |
| 1245 order. The second line defines compound words that are made of one word with | |
| 1246 the "s" flag and one word with the "e" flag. With this dictionary: | |
| 1247 bork/c ~ | |
| 1248 onion/s ~ | |
| 1249 soup/e ~ | |
| 481 | 1250 |
| 484 | 1251 You can make these words: |
| 1252 bork | |
| 1253 borkbork | |
| 1254 borkborkbork | |
| 1255 (etc.) | |
| 481 | 1256 onion |
| 1257 soup | |
| 1258 onionsoup | |
| 1259 | |
| 714 | 1260 The COMPOUNDRULE item may appear multiple times. The argument is made out of |
| 484 | 1261 one or more groups, where each group can be: |
| 1262 one flag e.g., c | |
| 1263 alternate flags inside [] e.g., [abc] | |
| 1264 Optionally this may be followed by: | |
| 1265 * the group appears zero or more times, e.g., sm*e | |
| 1266 + the group appears one or more times, e.g., c+ | |
| 2908 | 1267 ? the group appears zero times or once, e.g., x? |
| 481 | 1268 |
| 484 | 1269 This is similar to the regexp pattern syntax (but not the same!). A few |
| 1270 examples with the sequence of word flags they require: | |
| 714 | 1271 COMPOUNDRULE x+ x xx xxx etc. |
| 1272 COMPOUNDRULE yz yz | |
| 1273 COMPOUNDRULE x+z xz xxz xxxz etc. | |
| 1274 COMPOUNDRULE yx+ yx yxx yxxx etc. | |
| 2908 | 1275 COMPOUNDRULE xy?z xz xyz |
| 481 | 1276 |
| 714 | 1277 COMPOUNDRULE [abc]z az bz cz |
| 1278 COMPOUNDRULE [abc]+z az aaz abaz bz baz bcbz cz caz cbaz etc. | |
| 1279 COMPOUNDRULE a[xyz]+ ax axx axyz ay ayx ayzz az azy azxy etc. | |
| 1280 COMPOUNDRULE sm*e se sme smme smmme etc. | |
| 1281 COMPOUNDRULE s[xyz]*e se sxe sxye sxyxe sye syze sze szye szyxe etc. | |
| 481 | 1282 |
| 491 | 1283 A specific example: Allow a compound to be made of two words and a dash: |
| 1284 In the .aff file: | |
| 714 | 1285 COMPOUNDRULE sde ~ |
| 491 | 1286 NEEDAFFIX x ~ |
| 809 | 1287 COMPOUNDWORDMAX 3 ~ |
| 491 | 1288 COMPOUNDMIN 1 ~ |
| 1289 In the .dic file: | |
| 1290 start/s ~ | |
| 1291 end/e ~ | |
| 1292 -/xd ~ | |
| 1293 | |
| 1294 This allows for the word "start-end", but not "startend". | |
| 1295 | |
| 819 | 1296 An additional implied rule is that, without further flags, a word with a |
| 1297 prefix cannot be compounded after another word, and a word with a suffix | |
| 1298 cannot be compounded with a following word. Thus the affix cannot appear | |
| 1299 on the inside of a compound word. This can be changed with the | |
| 1300 |spell-COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG|. | |
| 1301 | |
| 625 | 1302 *spell-NEEDCOMPOUND* |
| 1303 The NEEDCOMPOUND flag is used to require that a word is used as part of a | |
| 1304 compound word. The word itself is not a good word. Example: | |
| 1305 | |
| 1306 NEEDCOMPOUND & ~ | |
| 1307 | |
| 1762 | 1308 *spell-ONLYINCOMPOUND* |
| 1309 The ONLYINCOMPOUND does exactly the same as NEEDCOMPOUND. Supported for | |
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| 481 | 1312 *spell-COMPOUNDMIN* |
| 500 | 1313 The minimal character length of a word used for compounding is specified with |
| 481 | 1314 COMPOUNDMIN. Example: |
| 1315 COMPOUNDMIN 5 ~ | |
| 1316 | |
| 500 | 1317 When omitted there is no minimal length. Obviously you could just leave out |
| 1318 the compound flag from short words instead, this feature is present for | |
| 1319 compatibility with Myspell. | |
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| 809 | 1321 *spell-COMPOUNDWORDMAX* |
| 484 | 1322 The maximum number of words that can be concatenated into a compound word is |
| 809 | 1323 specified with COMPOUNDWORDMAX. Example: |
| 1324 COMPOUNDWORDMAX 3 ~ | |
| 484 | 1325 |
| 1326 When omitted there is no maximum. It applies to all compound words. | |
| 1327 | |
| 1328 To set a limit for words with specific flags make sure the items in | |
| 714 | 1329 COMPOUNDRULE where they appear don't allow too many words. |
| 484 | 1330 |
| 1331 *spell-COMPOUNDSYLMAX* | |
| 1332 The maximum number of syllables that a compound word may contain is specified | |
| 1333 with COMPOUNDSYLMAX. Example: | |
| 1334 COMPOUNDSYLMAX 6 ~ | |
| 481 | 1335 |
| 484 | 1336 This has no effect if there is no SYLLABLE item. Without COMPOUNDSYLMAX there |
| 1337 is no limit on the number of syllables. | |
| 1338 | |
| 809 | 1339 If both COMPOUNDWORDMAX and COMPOUNDSYLMAX are defined, a compound word is |
| 491 | 1340 accepted if it fits one of the criteria, thus is either made from up to |
| 809 | 1341 COMPOUNDWORDMAX words or contains up to COMPOUNDSYLMAX syllables. |
| 491 | 1342 |
| 625 | 1343 *spell-COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG* |
| 1344 The COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG specifies a flag that can be used on an affix. It | |
| 819 | 1345 means that the word plus affix cannot be used in a compound word. Example: |
| 1346 affix file: | |
| 1347 COMPOUNDFLAG c ~ | |
| 1348 COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG x ~ | |
| 1349 SFX a Y 2 ~ | |
| 1350 SFX a 0 s . ~ | |
| 1351 SFX a 0 ize/x . ~ | |
| 1352 dictionary: | |
| 1353 word/c ~ | |
| 1354 util/ac ~ | |
| 1355 | |
| 1356 This allows for "wordutil" and "wordutils" but not "wordutilize". | |
| 827 | 1357 Note: this doesn't work for postponed prefixes yet. |
| 625 | 1358 |
| 1359 *spell-COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG* | |
| 1360 The COMPOUNDPERMITFLAG specifies a flag that can be used on an affix. It | |
| 1361 means that the word plus affix can also be used in a compound word in a way | |
| 819 | 1362 where the affix ends up halfway the word. Without this flag that is not |
| 1363 allowed. | |
| 827 | 1364 Note: this doesn't work for postponed prefixes yet. |
| 625 | 1365 |
| 809 | 1366 *spell-COMPOUNDROOT* |
| 1367 The COMPOUNDROOT flag is used for words in the dictionary that are already a | |
| 1368 compound. This means it counts for two words when checking the compounding | |
| 1369 rules. Can also be used for an affix to count the affix as a compounding | |
| 1370 word. | |
| 1371 | |
| 1762 | 1372 *spell-CHECKCOMPOUNDPATTERN* |
| 1373 CHECKCOMPOUNDPATTERN is used to define patterns that, when matching at the | |
| 1374 position where two words are compounded together forbids the compound. | |
| 1375 For example: | |
| 1376 CHECKCOMPOUNDPATTERN o e ~ | |
| 1377 | |
| 1378 This forbids compounding if the first word ends in "o" and the second word | |
| 1379 starts with "e". | |
| 1380 | |
| 1381 The arguments must be plain text, no patterns are actually supported, despite | |
| 1382 the item name. Case is always ignored. | |
| 1383 | |
| 1384 The Hunspell feature to use three arguments and flags is not supported. | |
| 1385 | |
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| 484 | 1394 *spell-SYLLABLE* |
| 1395 The SYLLABLE item defines characters or character sequences that are used to | |
| 1396 count the number of syllables in a word. Example: | |
| 13563 | 1397 SYLLABLE aáeéiíoóöõuúüûy/aa/au/ea/ee/ei/ie/oa/oe/oo/ou/uu/ui ~ |
| 484 | 1398 |
| 1399 Before the first slash is the set of characters that are counted for one | |
| 1400 syllable, also when repeated and mixed, until the next character that is not | |
| 1401 in this set. After the slash come sequences of characters that are counted | |
| 1402 for one syllable. These are preferred over using characters from the set. | |
| 1403 With the example "ideeen" has three syllables, counted by "i", "ee" and "e". | |
| 1404 | |
| 1405 Only case-folded letters need to be included. | |
| 1406 | |
| 1125 | 1407 Another way to restrict compounding was mentioned above: Adding the |
| 819 | 1408 |spell-COMPOUNDFORBIDFLAG| flag to an affix causes all words that are made |
| 5220 | 1409 with that affix to not be used for compounding. |
| 481 | 1410 |
| 493 | 1411 |
| 1412 UNLIMITED COMPOUNDING *spell-NOBREAK* | |
| 1413 | |
| 1414 For some languages, such as Thai, there is no space in between words. This | |
| 1415 looks like all words are compounded. To specify this use the NOBREAK item in | |
| 1416 the affix file, without arguments: | |
| 1417 NOBREAK ~ | |
| 1418 | |
| 1419 Vim will try to figure out where one word ends and a next starts. When there | |
| 1420 are spelling mistakes this may not be quite right. | |
| 1421 | |
| 481 | 1422 |
| 625 | 1423 *spell-COMMON* |
| 1424 Common words can be specified with the COMMON item. This will give better | |
| 1425 suggestions when editing a short file. Example: | |
| 1426 | |
| 1427 COMMON the of to and a in is it you that he was for on are ~ | |
| 1428 | |
| 1429 The words must be separated by white space, up to 25 per line. | |
| 1430 When multiple regions are specified in a ":mkspell" command the common words | |
| 1431 for all regions are combined and used for all regions. | |
| 1432 | |
| 1433 *spell-NOSPLITSUGS* | |
| 699 | 1434 This item indicates that splitting a word to make suggestions is not a good |
| 1435 idea. Split-word suggestions will appear only when there are few similar | |
| 1436 words. | |
| 625 | 1437 |
| 1438 NOSPLITSUGS ~ | |
| 1439 | |
| 1440 *spell-NOSUGGEST* | |
| 1441 The flag specified with NOSUGGEST can be used for words that will not be | |
| 1442 suggested. Can be used for obscene words. | |
| 1443 | |
| 1444 NOSUGGEST % ~ | |
| 1445 | |
| 1446 | |
| 493 | 1447 REPLACEMENTS *spell-REP* |
| 323 | 1448 |
| 1449 In the affix file REP items can be used to define common mistakes. This is | |
| 1450 used to make spelling suggestions. The items define the "from" text and the | |
| 1451 "to" replacement. Example: | |
| 1452 | |
| 1453 REP 4 ~ | |
| 1454 REP f ph ~ | |
| 1455 REP ph f ~ | |
| 1456 REP k ch ~ | |
| 1457 REP ch k ~ | |
| 1458 | |
| 497 | 1459 The first line specifies the number of REP lines following. Vim ignores the |
| 625 | 1460 number, but it must be there (for compatibility with Myspell). |
| 497 | 1461 |
| 378 | 1462 Don't include simple one-character replacements or swaps. Vim will try these |
| 1463 anyway. You can include whole words if you want to, but you might want to use | |
| 1464 the "file:" item in 'spellsuggest' instead. | |
| 323 | 1465 |
| 532 | 1466 You can include a space by using an underscore: |
| 1467 | |
| 1468 REP the_the the ~ | |
| 1469 | |
| 323 | 1470 |
| 626 | 1471 SIMILAR CHARACTERS *spell-MAP* *E783* |
| 323 | 1472 |
| 378 | 1473 In the affix file MAP items can be used to define letters that are very much |
| 323 | 1474 alike. This is mostly used for a letter with different accents. This is used |
| 1475 to prefer suggestions with these letters substituted. Example: | |
| 1476 | |
| 1477 MAP 2 ~ | |
| 13563 | 1478 MAP eéëêè ~ |
| 1479 MAP uüùúû ~ | |
| 323 | 1480 |
| 497 | 1481 The first line specifies the number of MAP lines following. Vim ignores the |
| 1482 number, but the line must be there. | |
| 323 | 1483 |
| 378 | 1484 Each letter must appear in only one of the MAP items. It's a bit more |
| 1485 efficient if the first letter is ASCII or at least one without accents. | |
| 336 | 1486 |
| 323 | 1487 |
| 625 | 1488 .SUG FILE *spell-NOSUGFILE* |
| 1489 | |
| 1490 When soundfolding is specified in the affix file then ":mkspell" will normally | |
| 644 | 1491 produce a .sug file next to the .spl file. This file is used to find |
| 1492 suggestions by their sound-a-like form quickly. At the cost of a lot of | |
| 1493 memory (the amount depends on the number of words, |:mkspell| will display an | |
| 1494 estimate when it's done). | |
| 625 | 1495 |
| 1496 To avoid producing a .sug file use this item in the affix file: | |
| 1497 | |
| 1498 NOSUGFILE ~ | |
| 1499 | |
| 644 | 1500 Users can simply omit the .sug file if they don't want to use it. |
| 1501 | |
| 625 | 1502 |
| 493 | 1503 SOUND-A-LIKE *spell-SAL* |
| 323 | 1504 |
| 1505 In the affix file SAL items can be used to define the sounds-a-like mechanism | |
| 1506 to be used. The main items define the "from" text and the "to" replacement. | |
| 378 | 1507 Simplistic example: |
| 323 | 1508 |
| 856 | 1509 SAL CIA X ~ |
| 1510 SAL CH X ~ | |
| 1511 SAL C K ~ | |
| 1512 SAL K K ~ | |
| 323 | 1513 |
| 388 | 1514 There are a few rules and this can become quite complicated. An explanation |
| 378 | 1515 how it works can be found in the Aspell manual: |
| 375 | 1516 http://aspell.net/man-html/Phonetic-Code.html. |
| 323 | 1517 |
| 1518 There are a few special items: | |
| 1519 | |
| 1520 SAL followup true ~ | |
| 1521 SAL collapse_result true ~ | |
| 1522 SAL remove_accents true ~ | |
| 1523 | |
| 1524 "1" has the same meaning as "true". Any other value means "false". | |
| 1525 | |
| 375 | 1526 |
| 493 | 1527 SIMPLE SOUNDFOLDING *spell-SOFOFROM* *spell-SOFOTO* |
| 375 | 1528 |
| 1529 The SAL mechanism is complex and slow. A simpler mechanism is mapping all | |
| 1530 characters to another character, mapping similar sounding characters to the | |
| 1531 same character. At the same time this does case folding. You can not have | |
| 378 | 1532 both SAL items and simple soundfolding. |
| 375 | 1533 |
| 388 | 1534 There are two items required: one to specify the characters that are mapped |
| 375 | 1535 and one that specifies the characters they are mapped to. They must have |
| 1536 exactly the same number of characters. Example: | |
| 1537 | |
| 1538 SOFOFROM abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ~ | |
| 1539 SOFOTO ebctefghejklnnepkrstevvkesebctefghejklnnepkrstevvkes ~ | |
| 1540 | |
| 1541 In the example all vowels are mapped to the same character 'e'. Another | |
| 378 | 1542 method would be to leave out all vowels. Some characters that sound nearly |
| 1543 the same and are often mixed up, such as 'm' and 'n', are mapped to the same | |
| 1544 character. Don't do this too much, all words will start looking alike. | |
| 375 | 1545 |
| 1546 Characters that do not appear in SOFOFROM will be left out, except that all | |
| 1547 white space is replaced by one space. Sequences of the same character in | |
| 1548 SOFOFROM are replaced by one. | |
| 1549 | |
| 1550 You can use the |soundfold()| function to try out the results. Or set the | |
| 587 | 1551 'verbose' option to see the score in the output of the |z=| command. |
| 375 | 1552 |
| 1553 | |
| 625 | 1554 UNSUPPORTED ITEMS *spell-affix-not-supported* |
| 1555 | |
| 1556 These items appear in the affix file of other spell checkers. In Vim they are | |
| 1557 ignored, not supported or defined in another way. | |
| 1558 | |
| 1559 ACCENT (Hunspell) *spell-ACCENT* | |
| 1560 Use MAP instead. |spell-MAP| | |
| 1561 | |
| 1762 | 1562 BREAK (Hunspell) *spell-BREAK* |
| 1563 Define break points. Unclear how it works exactly. | |
| 1564 Not supported. | |
| 1565 | |
| 625 | 1566 CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE (Hunspell) *spell-CHECKCOMPOUNDCASE* |
| 1567 Disallow uppercase letters at compound word boundaries. | |
| 1568 Not supported. | |
| 1569 | |
| 1570 CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP (Hunspell) *spell-CHECKCOMPOUNDDUP* | |
| 1571 Disallow using the same word twice in a compound. Not | |
| 1572 supported. | |
| 1573 | |
| 1574 CHECKCOMPOUNDREP (Hunspell) *spell-CHECKCOMPOUNDREP* | |
| 1575 Something about using REP items and compound words. Not | |
| 1576 supported. | |
| 1577 | |
| 1578 CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE (Hunspell) *spell-CHECKCOMPOUNDTRIPLE* | |
| 1579 Forbid three identical characters when compounding. Not | |
| 1580 supported. | |
| 1581 | |
| 15640 | 1582 CHECKSHARPS (Hunspell)) *spell-CHECKSHARPS* |
| 1583 SS letter pair in uppercased (German) words may be upper case | |
| 1584 sharp s (ß). Not supported. | |
| 1585 | |
| 625 | 1586 COMPLEXPREFIXES (Hunspell) *spell-COMPLEXPREFIXES* |
| 1587 Enables using two prefixes. Not supported. | |
| 1588 | |
| 714 | 1589 COMPOUND (Hunspell) *spell-COMPOUND* |
| 1125 | 1590 This is one line with the count of COMPOUND items, followed by |
| 856 | 1591 that many COMPOUND lines with a pattern. |
| 1592 Remove the first line with the count and rename the other | |
| 1593 items to COMPOUNDRULE |spell-COMPOUNDRULE| | |
| 714 | 1594 |
| 809 | 1595 COMPOUNDFIRST (Hunspell) *spell-COMPOUNDFIRST* |
| 1596 Use COMPOUNDRULE instead. |spell-COMPOUNDRULE| | |
| 1597 | |
| 625 | 1598 COMPOUNDBEGIN (Hunspell) *spell-COMPOUNDBEGIN* |
| 15640 | 1599 Words signed with COMPOUNDBEGIN may be first elements in |
| 1600 compound words. | |
| 1601 Use COMPOUNDRULE instead. |spell-COMPOUNDRULE| | |
| 1602 | |
| 1603 COMPOUNDLAST (Hunspell) *spell-COMPOUNDLAST* | |
| 1604 Words signed with COMPOUNDLAST may be last elements in | |
| 1605 compound words. | |
| 714 | 1606 Use COMPOUNDRULE instead. |spell-COMPOUNDRULE| |
| 625 | 1607 |
| 1608 COMPOUNDEND (Hunspell) *spell-COMPOUNDEND* | |
| 15640 | 1609 Probably the same as COMPOUNDLAST |
| 625 | 1610 |
| 1611 COMPOUNDMIDDLE (Hunspell) *spell-COMPOUNDMIDDLE* | |
| 15640 | 1612 Words signed with COMPOUNDMIDDLE may be middle elements in |
| 1613 compound words. | |
| 714 | 1614 Use COMPOUNDRULE instead. |spell-COMPOUNDRULE| |
| 625 | 1615 |
| 1762 | 1616 COMPOUNDRULES (Hunspell) *spell-COMPOUNDRULES* |
| 1617 Number of COMPOUNDRULE lines following. Ignored, but the | |
| 1618 argument must be a number. | |
| 1619 | |
| 625 | 1620 COMPOUNDSYLLABLE (Hunspell) *spell-COMPOUNDSYLLABLE* |
| 1621 Use SYLLABLE and COMPOUNDSYLMAX instead. |spell-SYLLABLE| | |
| 1622 |spell-COMPOUNDSYLMAX| | |
| 1623 | |
| 1762 | 1624 KEY (Hunspell) *spell-KEY* |
| 1625 Define characters that are close together on the keyboard. | |
| 1626 Used to give better suggestions. Not supported. | |
| 11473 | 1627 |
| 625 | 1628 LANG (Hunspell) *spell-LANG* |
| 1629 This specifies language-specific behavior. This actually | |
| 1630 moves part of the language knowledge into the program, | |
| 1631 therefore Vim does not support it. Each language property | |
| 1632 must be specified separately. | |
| 1633 | |
| 1634 LEMMA_PRESENT (Hunspell) *spell-LEMMA_PRESENT* | |
| 809 | 1635 Only needed for morphological analysis. |
| 625 | 1636 |
| 1637 MAXNGRAMSUGS (Hunspell) *spell-MAXNGRAMSUGS* | |
| 1762 | 1638 Set number of n-gram suggestions. Not supported. |
| 625 | 1639 |
| 1640 PSEUDOROOT (Hunspell) *spell-PSEUDOROOT* | |
| 1641 Use NEEDAFFIX instead. |spell-NEEDAFFIX| | |
| 1642 | |
| 1643 SUGSWITHDOTS (Hunspell) *spell-SUGSWITHDOTS* | |
| 1644 Adds dots to suggestions. Vim doesn't need this. | |
| 1645 | |
| 1646 SYLLABLENUM (Hunspell) *spell-SYLLABLENUM* | |
| 1647 Not supported. | |
| 1648 | |
| 1649 TRY (Myspell, Hunspell, others) *spell-TRY* | |
| 1650 Vim does not use the TRY item, it is ignored. For making | |
| 724 | 1651 suggestions the actual characters in the words are used, that |
| 1652 is much more efficient. | |
| 625 | 1653 |
| 1654 WORDCHARS (Hunspell) *spell-WORDCHARS* | |
| 1655 Used to recognize words. Vim doesn't need it, because there | |
| 1656 is no need to separate words before checking them (using a | |
| 1657 trie instead of a hashtable). | |
| 1658 | |
| 14421 | 1659 vim:tw=78:sw=4:ts=8:noet:ft=help:norl: |