From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Spell checking on windows Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:10:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <2c75873c0701151007q49b5f874y15e345c2e089f875@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168895522 19673 80.91.229.12 (15 Jan 2007 21:12:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 15 22:12:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H6Z7X-0000NJ-5u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:11:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6Z7W-00073w-RD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:11:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H6Z5j-0005vZ-7B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H6Z5h-0005sa-3q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H6Z5g-0005sR-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H6Z5f-0008HQ-J6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Jan 2007 16:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-229-117.inter.net.il [80.230.229.117]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id FTM91443 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:10:00 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <2c75873c0701151007q49b5f874y15e345c2e089f875@mail.gmail.com> (myotisone@gmail.com) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40337 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:07:55 +0000 > From: "Graham Smith" > > 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.