[wplug] Automatic spell check from mutt

[Rick Smith]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:17:02AM -0400, Rick Smith wrote:
> If that doesn't work, I've found creating in startup alias such as:

Interesting English.  Hmm, I think I meant

> If that doesn't work, try creating startup alias such as:
> [..]

And another change:

> Or make a shell script:
> 
>   $ cat ~/bin/mail
>   #!/bin/sh
>   vim "$1"
>   ispell "$1"

Oops.  Naming a script the same as something in /bin is not a good idea!
I meant to say 'mymail' or 'muttvim' or something unique.

-- Rick

The orig:


On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 06:17:02AM -0400, Rick Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:28:41AM -0500, Brian Medley wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 12:06:22AM -0400, Mike Procario wrote:
> > 
> > > I have never worked with autocmd. I will look into it but I need
> > > to be able to only trigger the spell check from email and some
> > > other files. Perhaps I need a special .vimrc file just for email.
> > > Spell checking python  or C could get tedious. 
> > 
> > That's why I suggested putting it in a ftplugin directory.  That stands for
> > File Type Plugin.  It will only be executed when vim determines that you
> > are in a file of a particular type.  I'd try
> > "~/.vim/after/ftplugin/mail.vim" first.  See ":help ftplugin".
> 
> sounds cool .. something new-to-me to play with . thanks.
> 
> If that doesn't work, you can probably configure your mailer to use
> a specific editor invocation.  Then set it up with
>   vim -u $HOME/.mymailvimrc
> 
> If that doesn't work, I've found creating in startup alias such as:
>   alias mutt="EDITOR=\"vim -u $HOME/.mymailvimrc\" mutt"
> 
> Or make a shell script:
> 
>   $ cat ~/bin/mail
>   #!/bin/sh
>   vim "$1"
>   ispell "$1"
> 
> And set that as your editor.