Re: Using aspell in emacs

[Jean Louis]

* Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor 
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> [2021-06-16 00:27]:
> Jean Louis wrote:
> 
> > I have verified it, if program `aspell' is on system, the
> > variable `ispell-program-name' will be set to its path.
> > Finished there.
> 
> OK, how does that happen one might wonder?


(defcustom ispell-program-name
  (or (executable-find "aspell")
      (executable-find "ispell")
      (executable-find "hunspell")
      ;; Enchant is commonly installed as `enchant-2', so use this
      ;; name and avoid old versions of `enchant'.
      (executable-find "enchant-2")
      "ispell")
  "Program invoked by \\[ispell-word] and \\[ispell-region] commands."
  :type 'string
  :set (lambda (symbol value)
         (set-default symbol value)
         (if (featurep 'ispell)
             (ispell-set-spellchecker-params))))

-- 
Jean

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