Yes, vim's spell-checking it's pretty useless for non-english writing users. Especially because vim's automatic downloading of missing language files dosn't work out of the box. Vim uses 'ftp' to download them, which is neither a dependency of vim nor part of the default installation.
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:setlocal spell spelllang=fr
Cannot find spell file for "fr" in utf-8
Do you want me to try downloading it?
Downloading fr.utf-8.spl...
shell returned 127
***netrw*** /bin/bash: ftp: command not found
Press <cr> to continue
Yes, vim's spell-checking it's pretty useless for non-english writing users. Especially because vim's automatic downloading of missing language files dosn't work out of the box. Vim uses 'ftp' to download them, which is neither a dependency of vim nor part of the default installation.
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:setlocal spell spelllang=fr
Cannot find spell file for "fr" in utf-8
Do you want me to try downloading it?
Downloading fr.utf-8.spl...
shell returned 127
***netrw*** /bin/bash: ftp: command not found
Press <cr> to continue