Re: emacs ispell / flyspell

[Alan Ristow <ristow@nospamplease.ee.gatech.edu>]

Martin Jørgensen wrote:
> Martin Jørgensen wrote:
>> Q1) Is it possible to avoid ispell entering latex environments, 
>> thereby avoiding errors such as on the word "subfigure" and similar 
>> latex-commands (there are *many errors* from these "special words")? 
>> Is it also possible to avoid getting spelling errors for instance 
>> inside \ref{THIS_IS_ON_PURPOSE_SPELLED_WRONG} or 
>> \label{something_here_too}?
>>
>> If yes: Please tell me how.
>>
>>
>> Q2) This is perhaps trivial, but whenever I write latex-documents, I 
>> would like to enable flyspell mode from the beginning without having 
>> to type M-x flyspell. I googled for a solution and found a reply from 
>> 1999:
>>
>> ----------
>> Try `M-x ispell-minor-mode RET'.  This will automatically spell each 
>> word as soon as you type SPC or RET.
>>
>> Another possibility is the flyspell package (`M-x flyspell RET', I
>> think).  I don't know if it works with XEmacs.
>> -----------
>>
>> But how do I put that into my .emacs, in relation to question 2?
>>
>> This post is X-posted to comp.text.tex and gnu.emacs.help.
> 
> hmmm. No answer.

I use Aspell, so I can't help with the first question, but here's what's 
in my .emacs to activate flyspell:

;; Setup Aspell and turn on flyspell mode
(setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
(setq-default ispell-extra-args '("--mode=tex"))
(setq-default ispell-extra-args '("--personal=custom_dict.rws"))
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)

> Where else can I post these 2 questions? I sometimes saw David Kastrup 
> in here answering something clever on this kind of problems.
> 
> Is there an auctex user group, developers forum or similar place where I 
> can ask whether or not I just have to live with this behaviour?

You can access an auctex newgroup via gmane -- see gmane.org.

Alan