Spell checking on windows

Spell checking on windows

[Graham Smith]

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Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
checking on Emacs running in Windows.

Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.

Thanks,

Graham

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Re: Spell checking on windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:07:55 +0000
> From: "Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com>
> 
> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.

I cannot confirm it, I can actually refute it: I use spell-checking in
the native Windows port of Emacs without any Cygwin program anywhere
in sight.

What you need is to find a native Windows port of Ispell or Aspell;
there are a few of them floating around (sorry, no URL).  After that,
everything with Just Work (tm).

> Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
> which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
> assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.

Unless your Emacs is a Cygwin build, I don't recommend mixing it with
a Cygwin port of speller: there are subtle incompatibilities.

Re: Spell checking on windows

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> What you need is to find a native Windows port of Ispell or Aspell;
> there are a few of them floating around (sorry, no URL).  After that,
> everything with Just Work (tm).


http://aspell.net/win32/

Re: Spell checking on windows

[Brian Elmegaard]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:

> http://aspell.net/win32/

Very easy to install in fact. Thanks for the pointer.
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Re: Spell checking on windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:07:55 +0000
> From: "Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com>
> 
> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.

I cannot confirm it, I can actually refute it: I use spell-checking in
the native Windows port of Emacs without any Cygwin program anywhere
in sight.

What you need is to find a native Windows port of Ispell or Aspell;
there are a few of them floating around (sorry, no URL).  After that,
everything with Just Work (tm).

> Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
> which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
> assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.

Unless your Emacs is a Cygwin build, I don't recommend mixing it with
a Cygwin port of speller: there are subtle incompatibilities.

Re: Spell checking on windows

[Graham Smith]

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Just to say thanks to everyone for their help.

Installed the precompliled windows binary for aspell, plus the english
dictionary

added (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") to .emacs and added the
path to the aspell bin directory as an environmental variable.

Its all working now ;-)

Graham

On 15/01/07, Graham Smith <myotisone@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.
>
> Assuming I do, from reading the install help, it seems that you can choose
> which packages to download, should I just download everything, on the
> assumption I may eventually need Cygwin for other things.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Graham
>

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Re: Spell checking on windows

[John Paul Wallington]

"Graham Smith" <myotisone@gmail.com> writes:

> Can someone confirm for me that I need to install Cygwin to get spell
> checking on Emacs running in Windows.

No, that isn't necessarily the case.  You could use a native Windows
port of ispell or aspell.

I can't recall which ISPELL port I used, but Googling for "ispell for
windows" or "aspell for windows" looks promising.