Practical Vim, 2nd Edition

Tip 122

Add Words to the Spell File

Vim’s spelling dictionaries are not comprehensive, but we can augment them by adding words to a spell file.

Sometimes Vim will incorrectly mark something as misspelled because the word doesn’t appear in the dictionary. We can teach Vim to recognize words with the zg command (zgⓘ), which adds the word under the cursor to a spell file.

Vim also provides a complementary zw command, which marks the word under the cursor as a misspelled word. In effect, this command allows us to remove words from the spell file. If we were to trigger the zg or zw command unintentionally, we could end up adding or removing words from our spell file by accident. Vim provides a dedicated undo command for just such an occasion, ...