Has it ever happened to you that you change the language of vim’s spellchecker
(:set spelllang=de
), but when asked if vim should install the spell files you
accidentally hit no
? You can easily install the files yourself. Let’s assume
you want to install German spell files. Execute
$ export LANG=de
$ curl -o ~/.vim/spell/$LANG.utf-8.spl http://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/runtime/spell/$LANG.utf-8.spl
Done.