Setting ispell-local-dictionary using file contents

Setting ispell-local-dictionary using file contents

[Luis O. Silva]

Dear Emacs community,

I'm planning to use the contents of a file to set the
ispell-local-dictionary variable. I'm not sure where to begin
from or whether this have been done before, but I'm thinking
of a function like the following:

1. Begin a search process to find some keywords

2. If this keywords are in language x (i.e. they're the
   x-keywords), set the ispell-local-dictionary variable to x.

3. Begin the spell checking process.

I think the words in a file completely determine what ispell
dictionary must be used.  Obviously, something like:

;;; ispell-local-dictionary: x

is redundant information.

Does anyone know if this has been done? Is there some hint to
help me in attaining this goal?


Thank you very much in advance.
luis

Re: Setting ispell-local-dictionary using file contents

[Jesper Harder]

"Luis O. Silva" <l.o.silva@mail.ru> writes:

> I'm planning to use the contents of a file to set the
> ispell-local-dictionary variable. I'm not sure where to begin
> from or whether this have been done before,

See <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GuessLang> and the links
on that page.

-- 
Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>

Re: Setting ispell-local-dictionary using file contents

[Luis O. Silva]

Hi Jesper,

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 17:32:10 +0200, Jesper Harder writes:

    >  "Luis O. Silva" <l.o.silva@mail.ru> writes:
    >> I'm planning to use the contents of a file to set the
    >> ispell-local-dictionary variable. I'm not sure where to
    >> begin from or whether this have been done before,

    > See <http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?GuessLang>
    > and the links on that page.

Thanks for the information. Many things that one can imagine
have already been done in Emacs.

Regards,
luis

Re: Setting ispell-local-dictionary using file contents

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Apr 26 2004, Luis O. Silva wrote:

> I'm planning to use the contents of a file to set the
> ispell-local-dictionary variable. 

There's Colin Marquardt's `auto-lang.el'
<URL:http://www.marquardt-home.de/auto-lang.el>, see also
<URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AutoLangMode>.

Bye, Reiner.
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Re: Setting ispell-local-dictionary using file contents

[Luis O. Silva]

Hi Reiner,

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 18:20:53 +0200, Reiner Steib writes:

   R> On Mon, Apr 26 2004, Luis O. Silva wrote:
   >> I'm planning to use the contents of a file to set the
   >> ispell-local-dictionary variable.

   R> There's Colin Marquardt's `auto-lang.el'
   R> <URL:http://www.marquardt-home.de/auto-lang.el>, see
   R> also
   R> <URL:http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?AutoLangMode>.

Thank you for the information. This is a very useful
package. I'm testing this now, but, so far, I prefer the
modularity of guess-lang.el recomended by Jesper.

Thanks,
luis