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Enable Vim Spell Check for Specific File Types

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You can enable spell check in vim, gvim, or macvim by entering command mode1 and typing :set spell.

To make this permanent for every time you open a file in vim you can add this line to your ~/.vimrc2 file:

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set spell

If you use vim for programming you might not want it to spell check every file. If, for example, you use vim to edit your markdown files for your Octopress Blog AND you also use vim to edit your ruby project you will want to use the autocmd instead:

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autocmd FileType Markdown setlocal spell

This will only enable spell check if you open a file with type “Markdown”

  1. You can enter command mode by pressing the ESC key.↩

  2. ~ represents the current users home directory. Similar to the $HOME environment variable.↩

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