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spell check for punctuation characters in continuous text with vim

is it possible to check punctuation characters in continuous text with vim? to avoid e.g.

The story of 'Hello World'  :  <CR>
Hello World!Hello World:, Hello World.<CR>
Hello World.    <CR>
Solution

  • Apparently it isn't possible to add all those illegal punctuation combinations to the bad word list; when I select :; from your example and press zW, it isn't highlighted as spell errors.

    That leaves only some other sort of highlighting, e.g. via additional syntax highlighting rules:

    :syntax match SpellBadPunctuation /[;:,.]\{2,}/
:highlight link SpellBadPunctuation SpellBad

    (You may want to refine the regular expression.) That gives you a visual indication, but you still cannot navigate to those errors with the built-in ]s motions!