Spellchecking in neovim

content/gemlog/spell_checking_in_neovim.gmi

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+Meta(
+    title: "Spell checking in NeoVim",
+    summary: None,
+    published: Some(Time(
+        year: 2023,
+        month: 5,
+        day: 21,
+        hour: 15,
+        minute: 2,
+        second: 52,
+    )),
+    tags: [
+        "neovim",
+        "workflow",
+        "lua",
+    ],
+)
+---
+I had an email reply to one of my posts this morning which pointed out a spelling error. Well, there was more to the reply, but for the sake of this post that's the important bit. Anyway, what's funny is that I was just last night looking at the possibility of adding spellcheck to my NeoVim configuration.
+
+It turns out that NeoVim has a spell checker built in as of version 0.8. That's fantastic. You can turn it on with the command `:set spell`, or if you are using a language other than en_US `:set spelllang=<LANG>` where <LANG> would be your language code. But I really like having things like this mapped to an easy to remember keybind whenever possible, so I wanted to be able to toggle it on and off using `<leader>sc`. Well, that was pretty easy as well with the following snippet in init.lua.
+```
+-- Toggle spellcheck
+local function toggle_spell_check()
+    vim.opt.spell = not(vim.opt.spell:get())
+end
+vim.keymap.set('n', '<leader>sc', toggle_spell_check, {noremap=true})
+```
+I love having lua available in NeoVim.