vim file specific .vimrc

Question

I want spell checking to be enabled on vim when editing .txt or .md files. I added

setlocal spell spelllang=en_au

to .vimrc but that did spell checking for everything.

Answer 1

This might be doable with an autocmd though I've never tried it:

autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.txt setlocal spell spelllang=en_au
autocmd BufNewFile,BufRead *.md setlocal spell spelllang=en_au