vi and ispell

E Frank Ball frankb at efball.com
Tue Apr 4 13:43:03 PDT 2000


Ok I have a vi question I didn't think of when we had our guest speaker on vi.

On HP-UX I have this in my ~/.exrc file:

map ^T :w^M:!ispell -x % ^M:e!^M^M

And when I'm editing a file I type a <ctrl>t and it pipes the file to ispell.

On Linux this doesn't work, unless the file is in my home directory. 
It comes back with:

:!ispell filename
ispell:  specified file does not exist

where filename is the name of the file I'm editing.

If I type in 
:!ispell -x /fullpath/%
Then it works.

How can I make vi look in my current directory instead of my home directory?

   E Frank Ball           frankb at efball.com



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