chip / vim-fat-finger

Simple vim plugin for common misspellings and typos

vim-fat-finger

A simple vim plugin that automatically corrects common misspellings and typos as you type.

Misspellings

This plugin supports over 4,000 common misspellings, as defined in plugin/fat-finger.vim.

The settings in the plugin file are defined using Vim's iabbrev keyword, which is part of Vim's built-in abbreviations feature. The definitions follow a format of iabbrev, followed by the commonly misspelled word, and then finally the desired corrected version of misspelling.

For example:

iabbrev acheive achieve
iabbrev contraversy controversy
iabbrev demenor demeanor
iabbrev embarass embarrass
iabbrev lisence license
iabbrev morgage mortgage
iabbrev nightfa;; nightfall
iabbrev offred offered
iabbrev precice precise
iabbrev teh the                                                                                                  

Installation

git clone [email protected]:chip/vim-fat-finger.git
cp vim-fat-finger/plugin/fat-finger.vim ~/.vim/plugin/

Configuration

Simply edit ~/.vim/plugin/fat-finger.vim to suit your needs. If you don't like a specific definition, feel free to edit it or remove it altogether.

License

LICENSE

Trolling

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Vote for the plugin at vim.org

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=4423

vim-fat-finger's Issues

Use Extradite

I think a common database of English misspellings is quite useful. However, it's quite inefficient and incomplete as it currently is.

I suggest using @tpope's abolish.vim to both shorten the verbosity of and enhance the quality/flexibility of the corrections.

Capitalised Words

Often the misspelling maybe at the start of a sentence and therefore capitalised. These words would not then be corrected. Could we have a second file that is generated from the first, with capital letters beginning all the words?

Could generate this file with:

/\(iabbrev\) \(\U\w\+\) \(\U\w\+\)
:v//d
%s//\1 \u\2 \u\3