From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: 3246251196ryan@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:50:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415789725 2479 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2014 10:55:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:55:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 12 11:55:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XoVa3-00078w-Mt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:55:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53678 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoVa3-0000Yx-CD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:55:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.236.231.180 with SMTP id l50mr37281989yhq.4.1415789454556; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:50:54 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.94.81 with SMTP id f75mr725725qge.5.1415789454535; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 02:50:54 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.glorb.com!u7no1047529qaz.1!news-out.google.com!u1ni10qah.0!nntp.google.com!i13no1048187qae.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.39.218.10; posting-account=yK8oPQoAAAA1qIT_h_OI91dtN6mGEacV Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.39.218.10 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:50:54 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208620 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100898 Archived-At: In order to get ispell to work with Windows/Emacs I am following this Aspell guide: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AspellWindows However, it all of a sudden talk about a: (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/path/to/your/.ispell") What is this about? I have downloaded the two binaries firstly installing the Aspell binary. Then, I have installed aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe - the EN dict. This produces the following files: -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 85 Dec 21 2002 american-w-accents.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 75 Dec 21 2002 american.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 85 Dec 21 2002 british-w-accents.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 75 Dec 21 2002 british.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 85 Dec 21 2002 canadian-w-accents.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 75 Dec 21 2002 canadian.alias -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 4045824 Dec 21 2002 en-only.rws -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 132 Dec 21 2002 en.multi -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 154624 Dec 21 2002 en_CA-only.rws -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 94 Dec 21 2002 en_CA-w-accents.multi -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 113 Dec 21 2002 en_CA.multi -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 154624 Dec 21 2002 en_GB-only.rws -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 94 Dec 21 2002 en_GB-w-accents.multi -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 113 Dec 21 2002 en_GB.multi -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 142336 Dec 21 2002 en_US-only.rws -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 94 Dec 21 2002 en_US-w-accents.multi -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 113 Dec 21 2002 en_US.multi -rw-r--r-- 1 dix9yok Administrators 72 Dec 21 2002 english.alias I have tried: (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi") etc but I get the error message: ispell-init-process: Error: The file "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi" is not in the proper format. I also cannot find a file called .ispell: In my EMACS dir location: find . -iname "*spell*" ./etc/images/low-color/spell.xpm ./etc/images/spell.pbm ./etc/images/spell.xpm ./lisp/erc/erc-spelling.el ./lisp/erc/erc-spelling.elc ./lisp/obsolete/spell.el ./lisp/obsolete/spell.elc ./lisp/textmodes/flyspell.el ./lisp/textmodes/flyspell.elc ./lisp/textmodes/ispell.el ./lisp/textmodes/ispell.elc How to solve this problem? Thank you.