Spell: Don't check for a capital after an ellipsis?

[David Woodfall]

How can I tell vim's spellchecker not to highlight words after an
ellipsis which aren't capitalised?

Thanks

[David Woodfall]

>How can I tell vim's spellchecker not to highlight words after an
>ellipsis which aren't capitalised?

After some googling I didn't find an exact find, but found a useful
function here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7561603/vim-spell-check-ignore-capitalized-words

which I translated so:

fun! IgnoreEllipsis()
syn match Ellipsis /.*[.][.][.]\s[a-z]*/ contains=@NoSpell transparent
syn cluster Spell add=Ellipsis
endfun

Unfortunately it doesn't work and I'm guessing the regex is wrong, as
a simple 'echomsg "bla"' does show it being called.

Any ideas?

[David Woodfall]

I gather that spellcapcheck is the culprit here, because it is set to
any number of periods to denote the end of a sentence, instead of just
one:

[.?!][\\])'\"\t\ ]\\+

But when I try to limit it to one period following a word character or
lowercase character (\\w and \\l) highlighting of sentence endings fails.

When I try to limit to 1 occurrence it takes no notice.

I have tried these so far:

\\w[.?!][\\])'\"\t\ ]\\+
\\l[.?!][\\])'\"\t\ ]\\+
[.?!]\\{1}[\\])'\"\t\ ]\\+

None work as desired.

[LCD 47]

[...]

You could try something like this instead (not tested):

syn match Ellipsis /\%(…|\.\.\.\)\s\+\zs[a-z].\{-}\>/ contains=@NoSpell transparent

However, the effect is to ignore any word starting with a lower case
letter that follows an ellipsis, rather than just stop checking for a
capital letter after an ellipsis.

/lcd