From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Aleksandar Simic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: spell make it work emacs on AppleMac Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:08:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492686569 11638 195.159.176.226 (20 Apr 2017 11:09:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 11:09:29 +0000 (UTC) To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 20 13:09:22 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d19xh-0002rz-Iw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:09:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52979 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d19xn-00054r-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52266) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d19xI-00054l-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:08:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d19xG-0007cr-VX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:08:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ua0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c08::22f]:35674) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d19xG-0007aR-Oi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:08:54 -0400 Original-Received: by mail-ua0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id f10so46096712uaa.2 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:08:54 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=ee+uypGNQBUN5QlJyb0qcVGIGrrPxeeXsDtckeyfzcg=; b=Xo5Urm39o7aBEBwWDJ94+PiG8+WK6GuXCXbeRr4i2OQQivn9mSJSAAw9ffzIbHp2Tu QSXPjU3mk/+otacX5QCH5HA++NDhAPImZQc8bmXcRqyKH9bLpuzUkf5Fg4f6/9PlZylp Sljxx9LYpm+C9gL3F3WgoKPbrSJfJl6sgo1LPygv/UfsJmqg9iIfG+DmSBIr6PP6r1wD 8ACpn+3TolmVZ3d02BWscNlu/fCL7xK9G56N+xpjRkrhlzdsqieALAo9KJiwC4qrEkZA xZSCj36ZnM38+V5bBPIefLnZ/3J3wKNIYx/NbZZhF9aOUUFGzpUOMuIWb1s9O96CnCCG QoTQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to; bh=ee+uypGNQBUN5QlJyb0qcVGIGrrPxeeXsDtckeyfzcg=; b=j/cdxIgi9VbC5GAnQ4BLD9+Nv9CZncQSJYGqc4B1eE8dOriNoDgwA8xFiu8S1IVQW0 60FOESPiirFh3DFMHDx4AKuDo/fTaubRo1e+qMIpWPGeBEmaPXnthzvp9QEG0cP3Wut3 aYkBpM+qQz3KXX9ogNmMQtzNvSqUKJ2lC1NHWcw+AYc5SCEWSi9ebtjY4ff9lY9+vt2J AjsAn3WirptVop3SZ8hVHsEDsz1RL9aSWfJRZ1L313O5srxXLoF8X4mf1rfhjTBkgRxQ 2m3LnFSRFW/spKdL+F/FJ6o8CXa9mHoiytO5ApKnPuJiELcFNx3kY0LPhBgYMUUary30 VPXA== X-Gm-Message-State: AN3rC/5/+RTgdIE9Q1H3t2vxr44hZQgXhDChgYosUJr7WcQDsV7NbudH Etpu9joL/rnvTn4dc+8zyTjV7WZkLAUzGbo= X-Received: by 10.31.192.138 with SMTP id q132mr2892618vkf.101.1492686533409; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:08:53 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.159.36.204 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 04:08:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c08::22f X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.21 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112817 Archived-At: Hello Richard On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 3:50 AM, Richard Smith wrote: > On AppleMac "Air" - laptop - using as-installed emacs. > > ESC-x ispell not working - nor any other spell command. Have lived > for years without "spell" program in emacs > > Then couple of days ago, got surprise when accidentally pressed what > must have been the ESC-tab command - and got spell-check on preceding > word. > The default config for spell checking a word is M-$. With default Emacs install that comes on OS X, ESC-TAB which is M-TAB runs the command lisp-complete-symbol. Not sure about your setup. Maybe run M-x describe-key M-TAB to see what the key is bound on your Emacs. > So ispell is installed? > What does "which ispell" tell you? > Can I get it to work? > I don't think that ispell is installed by default. So you're left with the option of installing a spell checker for Emacs for yourself. I'd advise you to install aspell, because it can spell check camel cased words. See this about the different options: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell And see this write up with further details: http://blog.binchen.org/posts/what-s-the-best-spell-check-set-up-in-emacs.html PS - does it make more sense to install a full unix? > Miss GnuPlot, xfig, the GIMP, etc. > You have many options on how to install the software you mention above. Look into Homebrew https://brew.sh/ and pkgsrc https://www.pkgsrc.org/ Hope that helps Aleksandar