How to create the own spelling file for vim

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At the moment I'm writing a document where I need to use a lot of acronyms, technical language, and non German words.

Now I was wondering if I could create a spelling file (tech_speak) which checks for this technical language so I can use the following vim command

:set spelllang=de,tech_speak spell

How could this be done?

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The 'spellfile' option is what you're looking for:

:set spellfile=~/.vim/spell/techspeak.utf-8.add

^{Note: Avoid special characters like _; as it separates the region name in Vim.}

You can then add your custom words to it with zg. You don't even need to add anything to 'spelllang'; those additions will be considered automatically.

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Good news, this is already part of Vim. Turn on syntax highlighting (:syntax enable) and this should be taken care of automatically with the default syntax files packaged with any reasonably recent vim distribution. See :help spell-syntax for an explanation. The short version is that syntax files can use @Spell and @NoSpell to specify where spell checking should or should not occur.

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Debian wheezy:

sudo apt-get install vim-scripts # Needed for spell downloading script
sudo rm /usr/share/vim/vim73/spell/*.sug /usr/share/vim/vim73/spell/*.spl
sudo vim

now trigger downloading in vim:

set spell spelllang=en,de,OR_WHATEVER_LANGUAGE_YOU_WANT

et voilà, you will get perfectly working spell files for all users.

(If you only want them for the current user, skip the sudo before calling vim or, change the installation directory to /home/YOUR_USER/.vim/spell.)

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