From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Davin Pearson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem running M-x flyspell-buffer (aspell error) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 01:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <25809c16-4d0b-4bcd-9725-b712ac581f14@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1466585757 7761 80.91.229.3 (22 Jun 2016 08:55:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:55:57 +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 Jun 22 10:55:47 2016 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 1bFdwn-0003yn-Hj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 10:55:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56644 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bFdwm-0006Ns-Uj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 04:55:44 -0400 X-Received: by 10.25.80.7 with SMTP id e7mr3597480lfb.7.1466585676538; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 01:54:36 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.36.103.134 with SMTP id u128mr291122itc.5.1466585676441; Wed, 22 Jun 2016 01:54:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!oe3no7870964lbb.1!news-out.google.com!di11ni24119lbb.1!nntp.google.com!oe3no7870959lbb.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <25809c16-4d0b-4bcd-9725-b712ac581f14@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=122.56.204.82; posting-account=SVVH0AoAAABplEQzMkIR3gU7a0gK8IuF Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.56.204.82 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:54:36 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218243 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:110552 Archived-At: On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 8:39:15 PM UTC+12, Davin Pearson wrote: > Somewhere in upgrading cygwin I have lost my aspell.exe program from being able to use it inside GNU Emacs. > > I am using emacs-24.5-bin-i686-mingw32.zip > > Should I install the 64 bit or the 32 bit x86 version of aspell.exe? > > Is it okay to mix and match 32 bit program files with 64 bit program files? > > I have downloaded All -> Text -> aspell from one of Cygwin's mirrors. > > Here is what happens when I invoke the command M-x flyspell-buffer > > Starting new Ispell process c:\cygwin\bin\aspell.exe with british dictionary... > ispell-init-process: Error: The file "/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/british" can not be opened for reading. Okay I installed aspell-en-7.1.0-1.tar.bz2 to give me the English dictionary. But is it okay to mix and match x86 files with x64 files?