From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Graham Smith" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spell checking on windows Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:30:30 +0000 Message-ID: <2c75873c0701151430s4bea271fk3f7b488fae4206ce@mail.gmail.com> References: <2c75873c0701151007q49b5f874y15e345c2e089f875@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0856407034==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168900289 5816 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2007 22:31:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:31:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 15 23:31:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H6aMH-0008BB-Uh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:31:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6aMH-0008HP-QT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:31:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H6aLZ-000876-Jp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:30:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H6aLY-00086g-VB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:30:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6aLY-00086X-SP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.85.132.246] (helo=an-out-0708.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H6aLX-00018w-Dx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:30:32 -0500 Original-Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b8so217047ana for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:30:30 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=VgTmgoKy01J612xtIRoTh7XokycHVBZIavU4gaKZw80JgRz/nlNqOi8eUJBIcewwRVxI+cwdmeQHif5eRDEyD0j5hxMiW2uXzq7ta93flrMEJar/9d07q2e6Jw3/vfhoh7HtrJ0INcUBMsa+tZbq5ww7fxVoOtSQ4wRPJoX3DHY= Original-Received: by 10.35.96.7 with SMTP id y7mr8627059pyl.1168900230279; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:30:30 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.35.59.12 with HTTP; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:30:30 -0800 (PST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <2c75873c0701151007q49b5f874y15e345c2e089f875@mail.gmail.com> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40342 Archived-At: --===============0856407034== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_68201_18168038.1168900230019" ------=_Part_68201_18168038.1168900230019 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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 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 > ------=_Part_68201_18168038.1168900230019 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline 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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