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I might believe the argument more if there wasn’t a typo in the first sentence.

It is a known fact in philosophy that spelling mistakes automatically invalidate whatever thesis you are defending.

The point was something with spellcheck, much like an IDE would have with code mistakes, would have caught that error easily. Which takes away from his argument that you don't need IDEs.

Kind of like if someone was selling you a super reliable lawn mower, but it took 4 or 5 extra rip cord pulls to start, would have me less inclined to believe his pitch.

Which editor doesn't have spellcheck or integration with linters?

vim doesn't; it has an strong, active plugin infrastructure but the vast majority of people using vim don't use plugins at all

Reminder the topic here was we don't need IDEs because people should be smart enough to do it in an editor. I think that with spellcheck it's reasonable to say that if people make mistakes that could be solved with spellcheck, they could also make mistakes that could be solved with an IDE

We are all human, we all make mistakes

Vim has both. I know because I use it daily.

The spellchecker is enabled with

    set spell

There are also countless features for linter integration. Quickfix, location list, line gutter, highlight groups, popup windows, and much more.

set spell=en_US

if there weren't

that's just your subjunctive opinion ;)

if there ain't been no

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