Re: ispell/aspell on Mac 10.7: "Searching for program: No such file or directory, aspell"

[Mario Lassnig]

On 11-10-24 17:27 , Marius Hofert wrote:
> Hi,

Gruezi,

> I'm working with Emacs 23.3 on Mac OS X 10.7.2. I would like to use aspell for 
> spell
> checking, but I get an error. Here is what I tried so far and the 
corresponding results:
> 1) downloaded and installed aspell-0.60.6.1.tar.gz
> 2) copied ./scripts/ispell and ./scripts/spell to /usr/local/bin [recommended 
> in README]
> 3) downloaded and installed aspell6-en-7.1-0.tar.bz2 [English dictionary]
> 4) tested aspell in the terminal =>  works

Ok until now...

> 5) downloaded 
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell.html
> 6) put it in ~/.emacs.d/flyspell under the name "flyspell.el"
> 7) put in ~/.emacs:
> (add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/flyspell")
> (autoload 'flyspell-mode "flyspell" "On-the-fly spelling checker." t)
> (autoload 'flyspell-delay-command "flyspell" "Delay on command." t)
> (autoload 'tex-mode-flyspell-verify "flyspell" "" t)

... in principle not necessary, as e23.3 comes with flyspell prepackaged ...

> (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")

... the trick comes here:

(setq-default ispell-program-name "/usr/local/bin/aspell")
(setq-default ispell-list-command "list")

Ciao,
Mario

> If I open a .tex file and use M-x flyspell-mode, I obtain: "Searching for 
> program: No such
> file or directory, aspell".
> Without the last line in 7), I obtain "Searching for program: No such file or 
> directory, ispell".
> Both ispell and aspell are working in the terminal, why not in emacs?
> The buffer *Messages* says:
> ...
> Applying style hooks... done
> Loading /Users/mhofert/.emacs.d/flyspell/flyspell.el (source)...done
> Local Ispell dictionary set to nil
> Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
> apply: Searching for program: No such file or directory, aspell
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius