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- From: tim@crash.canon.co.uk
- Newsgroups: comp.editors
- Subject: Re: Is there a spellchecker for VI?
- Message-ID: <92Aug28.1104.22952@crash.canon.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 10:04:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.034210.1134@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1992Aug27.192449.2756@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Sender: Tim F O'Donoghue
- Organization: me myself and i
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- pckizer@tamsun.tamu.edu (Philip Kizer) writes:
- :
- |My macro goes like:
- |map \s :w! /tmp/spl%^M:!ispell /tmp/spl%^M:%!cat /tmp/spl%^M:!rm /tmp/spl%^M^M
- |
- |Still possible for name collision, etc... (i.e. far from perfect),
-
- The main problem I see with this is that it assumes the files which you
- are editing are in the working directory (ie no slashes). Since you're
- editing these files, it's safe-ish to assume that you have write
- permission in their directories. Therefore wouldn't %.spl (or similar)
- be better than /tmp/spl%
-
- Tx. [?]
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