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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Spell checking on windows
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:10:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uirf8xahg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2c75873c0701151007q49b5f874y15e345c2e089f875@mail.gmail.com> (myotisone@gmail.com)

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-15 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-15 18:07 Spell checking on windows Graham Smith
2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-01-15 21:15   ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
     [not found]   ` <mailman.3110.1168895721.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-16 19:15     ` Brian Elmegaard
2007-01-15 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-15 22:30 ` Graham Smith
     [not found] <mailman.3093.1168884480.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-15 21:42 ` John Paul Wallington

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