flyspell without a mouse

flyspell without a mouse

[Shug Boabby]

using Emacs without a pointing device, I am finding it impossible to
add a word to the dictionary in flyspell. Does anyone know of a
function to do this? The obvious flyspell-word requires the mouse (not
the cursor!) to be over the word in question.

Re: flyspell without a mouse

[Björn Lindström]

"Shug Boabby" <Shug.Boabby@gmail.com> writes:

> using Emacs without a pointing device, I am finding it impossible to
> add a word to the dictionary in flyspell. Does anyone know of a
> function to do this? The obvious flyspell-word requires the mouse (not
> the cursor!) to be over the word in question.

You do just use the regular ispell.el binding for this. Press M-$ and
follow the instructions in the echo area.

Re: flyspell without a mouse

[Shug Boabby]

M-$, that'll be M-S-4 on my keyboard... "take screenshot" on Mac OS X.

drat :-/

cheers though, a little googling led me to the function it is bound to
"ispell-word" and it eventually (after a lot of user interaction) lets
me add a word to the dictionary. an "add to dictionary" function would
be handy, though probably dangerous to actually keybind to anything.

Re: flyspell without a mouse

[rgb]

Shug Boabby wrote:
> M-$, that'll be M-S-4 on my keyboard... "take screenshot" on Mac OS X.
>
> drat :-/
>
> cheers though, a little googling led me to the function it is bound to
> "ispell-word" and it eventually (after a lot of user interaction) lets
> me add a word to the dictionary. an "add to dictionary" function would
> be handy, though probably dangerous to actually keybind to anything.

It should only be 1 extra keystroke to add a word that isn't misspelled

to your dictionary.   If you remapped ispell-word to C-S-s then

C-S-s a
 
will add a word.

Re: flyspell without a mouse

[Shug Boabby]

then enter to confirm

Re: flyspell without a mouse

[Edward O'Connor]

> M-$, that'll be M-S-4 on my keyboard... "take screenshot" on Mac OS X.
>
> drat :-/

When I first started using OS X, that was one of the first system
keybindings I disabled, precisely because the Emacs binding of it is so
ingrained in my fingers.


Ted

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