Is it possible to have spell checking in vim? No, it’s not. EOP (End Of Post). I’m joking of course. It is! How to do it? The only thing you need to type is: :set spell spelllang=en or if you want spell checking for Polish language: :set spell spelllang=pl Note: when you set spelllang for language different than English, file with stuff for that language will be downloaded (if one is not already in ~/.vim/spell directory), so vim will prompt you some question like where to save that file (answering with default/only one option worked for me). ...

Having a backup version of config file is a nice thing to have when you screw something up. It allows you to experiment with adding new stuff to the file without ending a day with not working tool. You’ve probably seen people sharing their dotfiles on Github accounts or r/unixporn at Reddit using git repos. At least I’ve seen. So my first trial of backuping my config files was very trivial (but it did the job!). I just cpied i3wm config to created directory, initiated a new git repository and pushed that to the remote repo on Github. And you might think that’s not bad! ...