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RE: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking
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PaulBowman |
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RE: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking |
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Thu, 13 Jul 2006 14:56:53 +0100 |
Hi Eli, thanks for replying (sorry for delay I've been away). My
original complaint was more to do with the lack of any obvious
documentation in the EmacsW32 package (which, if I understand the
concept, is an attempt to make as near as possible a simple windows
installer package for Emacs) as to where to go to get either ispell or
an ispell-compliant analogue such as aspell and then how to install it.
I sent the following to Lennart as my solution:
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Hi Lennart,
I agree that it is not practical to bundle any solution into EmacsW32,
given the size of necessary dictionary files (and of course each
individual will want a different dictionary relevant to them) but the
documentation needs to be clearer.
Aspell does seem worryingly out of date, plus the documentation on
EmacsWiki is incomplete - i.e. the steps should be
1. Locate and download pre-compiled 4 windows packages for aspell and
relevant dictionary from http://aspell.net/win32/
2. Run aspell installer then dictionary installer
3. add <install location>\Aspell\bin to PATH
4. add (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") to your .emacs
5. restart emacs
I would update the wiki, but I am really late and must rush.
Thanks,
Paul
-----Original Message-----
From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: 05 July 2006 19:24
To: Bowman, Paul (GT EA Database Services)
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking
> Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 11:30:53 +0100
> From: address@hidden
>
> So far I'm pretty happy with everything except the situation with
> spell checking. Given that I use Emacs a lot for human text production
> as well as code, I naturally need a spell checker pretty much straight
> away, however Emacs32 out of the box just gives you a "Searching for
program:
> no such file or directory, ispell" error when you try to spell check.
Spell-checking works for me with a Windows port of Ispell.
I'm guessing you have some configuration problem (assuming you have some
speller installed, that is).
.
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- [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking, PaulBowman, 2006/07/05
- RE: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking,
PaulBowman <=
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking, Alessandro Vesely, 2006/07/13
- AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, C.Strobl, 2006/07/29
- Re: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/29
- AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, C.Strobl, 2006/07/29
- Re: AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/29
- AW: AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, C.Strobl, 2006/07/29
- Re: AW: AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/29
- [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, C.Strobl, 2006/07/29
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/29
- Re: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/29