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

[Smylers]

Dave Fisher writes:

> On 30 January 2012 21:39, Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com> wrote:
> 
> >  :echo $VIMRUNTIME
> 
> /usr/share/vim/vim72
> 
> > Then can you have a look for suitable files in its spell/
> > subdirectory,

Note "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

I wouldn't expect that to match anything.

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

vim-nox depends on vim-runtime, which should include the spelling
dictionaries files and put them in the same place as used by vim-gnome
and the other variants.

Try:

  $ dpkg -L vim-runtime | grep spell

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