* Spell checking on windows
@ 2007-01-15 18:07 Graham Smith
2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Graham Smith @ 2007-01-15 18:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
checking on Emacs running in Windows.
Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.
Thanks,
Graham
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* Re: Spell checking on windows
2007-01-15 18:07 Spell checking on windows Graham Smith
@ 2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-15 21:15 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
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2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-15 22:30 ` Graham Smith
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2007-01-15 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:07:55 +0000
> From: "Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com>
>
> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.
I cannot confirm it, I can actually refute it: I use spell-checking in
the native Windows port of Emacs without any Cygwin program anywhere
in sight.
What you need is to find a native Windows port of Ispell or Aspell;
there are a few of them floating around (sorry, no URL). After that,
everything with Just Work (tm).
> Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
> which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
> assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.
Unless your Emacs is a Cygwin build, I don't recommend mixing it with
a Cygwin port of speller: there are subtle incompatibilities.
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* Re: Spell checking on windows
2007-01-15 18:07 Spell checking on windows Graham Smith
2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-15 22:30 ` Graham Smith
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2007-01-15 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:07:55 +0000
> From: "Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com>
>
> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.
I cannot confirm it, I can actually refute it: I use spell-checking in
the native Windows port of Emacs without any Cygwin program anywhere
in sight.
What you need is to find a native Windows port of Ispell or Aspell;
there are a few of them floating around (sorry, no URL). After that,
everything with Just Work (tm).
> Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
> which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
> assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.
Unless your Emacs is a Cygwin build, I don't recommend mixing it with
a Cygwin port of speller: there are subtle incompatibilities.
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* Re: Spell checking on windows
2007-01-15 18:07 Spell checking on windows Graham Smith
2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2007-01-15 22:30 ` Graham Smith
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From: Graham Smith @ 2007-01-15 22:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Just to say thanks to everyone for their help.
Installed the precompliled windows binary for aspell, plus the english
dictionary
added (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") to .emacs and added the
path to the aspell bin directory as an environmental variable.
Its all working now ;-)
Graham
On 15/01/07, Graham Smith <myotisone@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.
>
> Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
> which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
> assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham
>
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