Re: Flyspell: correcting words

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

gebser@speakeasy.net wrote:

> At 16:06 (UTC-0700) on Thu, 15 Jan 2004 Kevin Rodgers said:
> 
> = gebser@speakeasy.net wrote:
> = 
> = > When, in flyspell-mode, I "M-x flyspell-correct-word", emacs replies 
> = > "flyspell-correct-word must be bound to an event with parameters".
> = 
> = 
> = Why don't you use `M-x flyspell-word'?
> 
> This does nothing at all.  There's nothing in the minibuffer, no error 
> message, the cursor does nothing... it's as if I never entered the 
> command.  
> 
> However, since posting this I discovered that, if I run "M-x
> ispell-word", that seems to do what I want, i.e., checks the spelling, 
> offers alternatives in another window, and allows me to correct the 
> mispelled word or add it to the existing dictionary.  Is this the way 
> it's supposed to work?  If so, it's counter-intuitive.

ispell provides explicit commands to check the spelling of a word or all the

words in a region.  flyspell is a minor mode to check spelling as you type.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers