Hello Vincent,

 VC> SCheckerEnabled Auto
 VC> SCheckerDefLang en_GB
 VC> SCheckerDictPath "/usr/share/hunspell"
                ^
Try SCheckerDicPath /usr/share/hunspell

 VC> Error Lred on Black
 VC> HIGHLIGHTUNREAD Yes

I don't have these in my config, but they may work.

 VC> Have not set the top line as not sure it is right other than the path
 VC> is correct for hunspell

 VC> ;EDITSPELLCHECK /usr/bin/hunspell @file

I don't have that in my config and I'm not sure how it is used.

 VC> Needless to say it still stops after loading waiting for keyboard
 VC> entry before going to the echo list area.

I'm not sure why that is.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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