Place the following file as init.el in a directory (e.g. ~/.demacs.d) ---cut here--- (setq inhibit-startup-screen t) (defun auto-complete-text-off () (message "Trying to turn off ispell completion...") (setopt text-mode-ispell-word-completion nil)) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'auto-complete-text-off) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'(lambda() (ispell-change-dictionary "en_GB") (flyspell-mode t))) ---cut here--- Open a text file and C-h C-v completion-at-point-functions. You should see ispell-completion-at-point in the list of completion functions Open a .org file and C-h C-v completion-at-point-functions. You see ispell-completion-at-point in the list of completion functions, when the expected behaviour is that ispell-completion-at-point is *not* in the list. /PA -- Fragen sind nicht da, um beantwortet zu werden, Fragen sind da um gestellt zu werden Georg Kreisler Headaches with a Juju log: unit-basic-16: 09:17:36 WARNING juju.worker.uniter.operation we should run a leader-deposed hook here, but we can't yet