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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-*spell.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jun 23
+*spell.txt* For Vim version 7.0aa. Last change: 2005 Jun 25
VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar
@@ -71,9 +71,15 @@ zw Add word under the cursor as a wrong (bad) word to
*:spellw* *:spellwrong*
:spellw[rong] {word} Add [word} as a wrong (bad) word to 'spellfile'.
-After adding a word to 'spellfile' its associated ".spl" file will
-automatically be updated. More details about the 'spellfile' format below
-|spell-wordlist-format|.
+After adding a word to 'spellfile' with the above commands its associated
+".spl" file will automatically be updated. If you edit 'spellfile' manually
+you need to use the |:mkspell| command. This sequence of commands mostly
+works well: >
+ :exe 'e ' . &spellfile
+< (make changes to the spell file) >
+ :mkspell! %
+
+More details about the 'spellfile' format below |spell-wordlist-format|.
Finding suggestions for bad words:
@@ -208,7 +214,7 @@ include characters like '-' in 'iskeyword'. The word characters do depend on
The table with word characters is stored in the main .spl file. Therefore it
matters what the current locale is when generating it! A .add.spl file does
-not contain a word table.
+not contain a word table though.
A word that starts with a digit is always ignored. That includes hex numbers
in the form 0xff and 0XFF.