vim-lexical VS vim-autocorrect

Compare vim-lexical vs vim-autocorrect and see what are their differences.

vim-lexical

Build on Vim’s spell/thes/dict completion (by preservim)

vim-autocorrect

Correct common typos and misspellings as you type in Vim (by panozzaj)
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vim-lexical vim-autocorrect
2 2
271 64
0.0% -
1.8 3.9
about 2 years ago over 3 years ago
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vim-lexical

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-lexical. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-10.
  • A Quickstart guide to setting up Vim for blogging
    8 projects | dev.to | 10 Sep 2021
    For grammar and spellchecking, I use many plugins. The main one is Pencil. I also use Vim Ditto, Lexical, and Wordy
  • Setting up VIM for blogging
    13 projects | dev.to | 23 Apr 2021
    Looking for synonyms? VIM supports thesaurus, however it has to be configured. I was able to configure the built in feature but it needed a hack to handle multi word synonyms and I didn't like that. I've decided to install vim-lexical plugin. Just as the built in feature, the plugin needs a synonyms file to work: grabbed one from Project Gutenberg. Tell vim-lexical where the file is and initialize the plugin:

vim-autocorrect

Posts with mentions or reviews of vim-autocorrect. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-21.
  • thethethe.nvim - neovim friendly autocorrect plugin
    4 projects | /r/neovim | 21 Oct 2023
    It's based on vim-autocorrect, but designed for Neovim and written in pure Lua. It also loads the dictionary in the background, so it doesn't delay startup time.
  • Setting up VIM for blogging
    13 projects | dev.to | 23 Apr 2021
    to make VIM replace each "veiw" with "view" on the fly (in insert mode). Vim-autocorrect is one of the plugins that come with predefined useful abbreviations.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing vim-lexical and vim-autocorrect you can also consider the following projects:

vim-ditto - :speak_no_evil: Stop repeating yourself

coc-diagnostic - diagnostic-languageserver extension for coc.nvim

vim-pencil - Rethinking Vim as a tool for writing

clangd - clangd language server

til - :memo: Today I Learned

vim-textobj-sentence - Improving on Vim's native sentence text object and motion

auto-pairs - Vim plugin, insert or delete brackets, parens, quotes in pair

vim-wordy - Uncover usage problems in your writing

coc.nvim - Nodejs extension host for vim & neovim, load extensions like VSCode and host language servers.

goyo.vim - :tulip: Distraction-free writing in Vim

vim-abolish - abolish.vim: Work with several variants of a word at once