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- From: saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu (Brian E. Saunders)
- Subject: Re: Spell checker from inside vi
- Organization: University of Wisconsin - Madison
- Date: 26 Jan 93 17:01:05 CST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.170105.4573@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
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- In article <C1HD54.Iv@news.udel.edu> william@bach.udel.edu (Wild William) writes:
- >Is there a simple way to do spell checking on the current file from
- >inside vi?
- >
- >i tried {!}spell but strange codes show up and it doesn't show any
- >alternatives etc.
-
- I can pipe the lines through spell by going to the command line and typing
- "1,$!spell", but unfortunately the output replaces all of your lines! Does
- anybody know how to redirect the output to the bottom of the file you are
- currently working on? This should be easy, but I don't know how to do it.
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- Brian E. Saunders saunders@luther.che.wisc.edu
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