[Wylug-discuss] Vim on Debian -- British English UTF-8 spell checking and completion

[Dave Fisher]

On 30 January 2012 21:39, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
> Dave writes:
> What error message do you get with that one?
>
> Also, from inside Vim, what does this report:
>
>  :echo $VIMRUNTIME
>
> (For me it's /usr/share/vim/vim73.)

/usr/share/vim/vim72

> Then can you have a look for suitable files in its spell/ subdirectory,
> for example with this shell command:
>
>  $ ls /usr/share/vim/vim73/spell/en*sp

  ls /usr/share/vim/vim72/en*sp
  ls: cannot access /usr/share/vim/vim72/en*sp: No such file or directory

hehe! ... well, that's a good start ;-)

I looks like Debian's vim-nox doesn't bother with wimpy spellchecking,
or puts the files elsewhere ... I'll take look around.

Dave