Re: ispell/aspell on Mac 10.7: "Searching for program: No such file or directory, aspell"

[Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>]

Okay, just figured out, that aspell did not work in the emacs shell (only in terminal.app). A restart cleared everything, so aspell is now found and I don't even need the two setq-default commands :-)

Cheers,

Marius

On 2011-10-24, at 20:16 , Mario Lassnig wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 11-10-24 18:03 , Marius Hofert wrote:
>> Dear Mario,
>> 
>> thanks a lot for your help.
>> I also thought that steps 5) to 7) are not necessary, but without manually setting up flyspell.el, I obtained:
>> Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
>> Enabling Flyspell mode gave an error
> 
> hmmm, i don't even have any load/require/anything in my init.el...
> it just works for me... (this guy here: http://emacsformacosx.com/)
> 
>> Okay, I removed the flyspell folder (containing flyspell.el) and put in the following in .emacs (as you suggested):
>> (setq-default ispell-program-name "/usr/local/bin/aspell")
>> (setq-default ispell-list-command "list")
>> Without the first command, I get the message "Enabling Flyspell mode gave an error", so even if aspell belongs to PATH it is not found. Hmm...
> 
> the osx environment is a bit messed up. it's a huge pita to do this correctly. the easiest way is just to put the full path to aspell in the ispell-program-name.
> 
>> 
>> I also put in the following in .emacs:
>> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode); enable flyspell mode for text-mode
>> (mapcar (lambda (mode-hook) (add-hook mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode))
>>          '(c-mode-common-hook R-mode-hook emacs-lisp-mode-hook))
>> The second/third lines are to use flyspell-prog-mode for .c and .R files (and emacs-lisp). However, this does not seem to have an impact when I opened a .c file and put in wrong character sequences in the comments... How does this work?
> 
> i didn't even know that there's a flyspell-prog mode :-)
> i use it for latex only
> 
> cheers,
> mario
> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Marius
> 
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