When I type long prose in Microsft Word, I can do so without looking at the screen because many stupid spelling errors are fixed by the autocorrect system. Surely this system is not perfect, but it does catch some of the most insidious typographical errors. Vim is a much better enviornment for managing text, but I do miss this autocorrect feature. So, this is an attempt to bring the MS Word autocorrect experience to Vim.
- The complete MS Word 2007 US English autocorrect list was imported into this script.
- I use Tim Pope´s abolish.vim to provide even more typo combinations, and also to handle various capitalization combinations.
- With abolish.vim´s help, the script creates "insert abbreviations" (see
:help abbreviations) to do its work. Due to Vim´s restrictions on what can be an abbreviation, however, some of MS Word´s typos are not transferrable. Specifically, multi-word corrections or corrections that contain punctuation don´t appear to be possible with this approach.
This plugin requires Tim Pope´s abolish.vim plugin. If it doesn´t find abolish.vim, then correction.vim will silently fail to load.
If you don´t have a preferred installation method, I recommend installing pathogen.vim, and then simply copy and paste:
cd ~/.vim/bundle
git clone git://github.com/tpope/vim-abolish.git
git clone git://github.com/jelkins/vim-correction.git
To turn off this plugin quasi-permanently, put this in your .vimrc:
let g:loaded_autocorrect = 1
To turn off all insert mode abbreviations temporarily, you can set paste in
your session (there are other effects of this setting -- see :help paste).
Copyright © 2013 Joel Elkins. Distributed under the same terms as Vim itself.
See :help license.