Spanish spelling checker for MacVim?

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How do I add the Spanish spell-checker for MacVim?

I read that this is a useful link, but apparently it is not working ... what should I do?

go to http://www.drchip.org/astronaut/vim/index.html#vimlinks_scripts and download the spanish dictionary — , May 27 '13 at 17:47

score 27 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '13 at 18:20

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I don't know about MacVim, however I just tested the following in vim 7.2 on Windows 7.

Set the spelling language to Spanish and switch on spell checking:

:set spelllang=es
:set spell

At this point Vim tells you:

Cannot find spell file for "es" in utf-8. Do you want me to try downloading it?

If you say yes, vim will download these two files into the $VIMRUNTIME/spell directory:

answered May 27 '13 at 18:20

Marco Baldelli

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For the suggestions, MacVim gives a warning that it uses 'quite a bit of memory'. Any idea the order of magnitude of that? – rocking_ellipse Apr 08 '16 at 14:14
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@hodgkin-huxley: `:help spell-remarks` says "Vim does on-the-fly spell checking. To make this work fast the word list is loaded in memory. Thus this uses a lot of memory (1 Mbyte or more)". 1MB seems hardly a concern on today's computers. – Marco Baldelli Apr 10 '16 at 12:18

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