ntemacs, can't run ispell

ntemacs, can't run ispell

[Jeffery B. Rancier]

Hello.  I'm running GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of
2002-03-19 on buffy, on Windows XP Pro, and I'm using Cygwin.

When I attempt to run ispell, I get in my *messages* buffer:

check-ispell-version: /usr/local/bin/ispell version 3 release 3.1.12
or greater is required

The program name is set as follows:

,----[ C-h v ispell-program-name RET ]
| ispell-program-name's value is 
| "/usr/local/bin/ispell"
| 
| Documentation:
| Program invoked by M-$ and M-x ispell-region commands.
| 
| You can customize this variable.
`----

>From within NTEmacs:

,----[ which ispell ]
| /usr/bin/ispell
`----

>From a bash shell (ignore the screwed up cygwin prompt):

,----
| Aü"@jrancier /
| $ which ispell
| /usr/local/bin/ispell
| 
| Aü"@jrancier /
| $ ispell
| GNU Ispell, version 4.0.
| Copyright (C) 1990, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| Ispell comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details run "ispell -W"
| This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
| under certain conditions; run "ispell -C" for details.
| word:
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I'll assume that NTEmacs is trying to using /usr/bin/ispell, even
though I explicitly named /usr/local/bin/ispell.  Is there some other
customization I need to make as well as ispell-program-name?

-- 

Thanks,
Jeff
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| Jeffery B. Rancier
| 
| Softechnics
| a METTLER TOLEDO company
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Re: ntemacs, can't run ispell

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: jeff.rancier@softechnics.com (Jeffery B. Rancier)
> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 11:06:33 -0500
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> Hello.  I'm running GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2600) of
> 2002-03-19 on buffy, on Windows XP Pro, and I'm using Cygwin.
> 
> When I attempt to run ispell, I get in my *messages* buffer:
> 
> check-ispell-version: /usr/local/bin/ispell version 3 release 3.1.12
> or greater is required
> 
> The program name is set as follows:
> 
> ,----[ C-h v ispell-program-name RET ]
> | ispell-program-name's value is 
> | "/usr/local/bin/ispell"
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Program invoked by M-$ and M-x ispell-region commands.
> | 
> | You can customize this variable.
> `----
> 
> >From within NTEmacs:
> 
> ,----[ which ispell ]
> | /usr/bin/ispell
> `----

I suspect this is some conflict between Cygwin and MSVC-compiled
Emacs, since Emacs doesn't understand the trickery Cygwin plays to
pretend that /usr/bin exists on every drive under its root.

Try installing Ispell in a directory that is on a normal Windows
PATH.  Alternatively, download a native Windows port of Ispell from
here:

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/contrib/ispell.zip

Re: ntemacs, can't run ispell

[Jeffery B. Rancier]

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

    > Try installing Ispell in a directory that is on a normal Windows
    > PATH.  Alternatively, download a native Windows port of Ispell from
    > here:

    >    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/contrib/ispell.zip

Thanks.  I followed the instructions, and tried to run ispell.exe, but
now get:

 Loading ispell...
 check-ispell-version: Spawning child process: exec format error

I removed the other ispell.exe(s) I had.
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Thanks,
Jeff
,----
| Jeffery B. Rancier
| 
| Softechnics
| a METTLER TOLEDO company
`----