From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Flyspell: correcting words Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:44:15 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4016BF8F.8090901@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1075233235 8825 80.91.224.253 (27 Jan 2004 19:53:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 19:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 27 20:53:44 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AlZCG-0001UV-00 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:48:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AlZCA-0002a8-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:48:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1075232657 26339689 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:120477 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16423 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16423 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