I'm putting this under ports because to spell check, you'd need a port or package as far as I know.
In vim, one can do set spell and it spell checks as you write, which can be useful for articles, emails, and the like. The only way I know of to spell check with builtin nvi is to set a key mapping--for example, on this machine I use hunspell, not sure if there was a reason to choose it over something else, or if it's just an old habit, and I have this in my .nexrc
This way, if I hit F5, it goes through the file I'm working on, showing misspelled words.
However in some cases, for example, emails, I do find the vim set spell, where a misspelled word is highlighted as you type it, more convenient. I'm wondering if such a method exists in nvi. Googling, even putting nvi in quotes, is showing surprisingly little. I expect that the method I use for nvi is all that's available, but figured I would ask. I could, I suppose, always install vim as well, and just use that when the realtime, so to speak, spell checking is desired, but it seems a waste. I admit this is somewhat of a first world problem, though less of one than being unable to put one's oreo into the glass of milk because the glass is too narrow.
In vim, one can do set spell and it spell checks as you write, which can be useful for articles, emails, and the like. The only way I know of to spell check with builtin nvi is to set a key mapping--for example, on this machine I use hunspell, not sure if there was a reason to choose it over something else, or if it's just an old habit, and I have this in my .nexrc
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map #5 : !hunspell -d en_US %However in some cases, for example, emails, I do find the vim set spell, where a misspelled word is highlighted as you type it, more convenient. I'm wondering if such a method exists in nvi. Googling, even putting nvi in quotes, is showing surprisingly little. I expect that the method I use for nvi is all that's available, but figured I would ask. I could, I suppose, always install vim as well, and just use that when the realtime, so to speak, spell checking is desired, but it seems a waste. I admit this is somewhat of a first world problem, though less of one than being unable to put one's oreo into the glass of milk because the glass is too narrow.