my nvim spellcheck setup
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I've gone too long without a proper spellcheck setup in nvim. I know it's there, I just don't use it, I don't have the right keybinds, like I do with...

Date: May 31, 2025

I’ve gone too long without a proper spellcheck setup in nvim. I know it’s there, I just don’t use it, I don’t have the right keybinds, like I do with vim date </vim-date/>, to make it work, and its clunky.

Default keybinds
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- z= show spell suggestions
- zg add word to dictionary
- zw remove word from dictionary
- ]s jump to next misspelled word
- [s jump to previous misspelled word

I really struggle with bracketed keybinds, they don’t flow for me. I have to shift into it and hit two keys, you cant just pop through them with intent, it always feels clunky to me.

Custom keybinds
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I barely use F-keys in my keymap so that was free game. On my keyboard I have F1-F9 in a numpad layout on my right hand, so F4-F6 are home row, these are super easy to pop through and update. I really refrain from using such high real estate keys like this unless it’s for something good, and I do a lot of writing in nvim, so fingers crossed I use the heck out of it.

- jump to next misspelled word
- jump to previous misspelled word
- show spell suggestions

I still use zg and zw, they seem fine to me.

The Setup
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In my keymap.lua file I added these to the end, they are working so far and hopefully I use spellcheck more on my posts now that I’ve made it easy.

```
set("n", "<f4>", "]s")
set("n", "<f5>", "[s")
set("n", "<f6>", "<cmd>Telescope spell_suggest<cr>")
```

One Failure
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I went down a long rabbit hole before this trying to populate the quickfix with spelling errors, I tried looking for existing plugins, tried to get ai to give me a good prototype to start with, and everything was over complicated. So far I’m really liking this setup.