From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Flyspell error Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:08:50 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <66ade717-927b-4304-bf4b-104d0848cc5c@u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com> References: <83tz0souue.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249283593 20424 80.91.229.12 (3 Aug 2009 07:13:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 07:13:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 03 09:13:06 2009 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 1MXrjF-0006kZ-Jd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:13:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37279 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MXrjE-0003dn-Ts for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:13:04 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 85 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249258130 11488 127.0.0.1 (3 Aug 2009 00:08:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:08:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u16g2000pru.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.37 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171509 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 03:12:20 -0400 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:66693 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman answered the question. Thanks. for me, i use speck.el, which i find better than ispell based flyspell- * etc. Xah On Aug 2, 1:28 pm, Richard Riley wrote: > Xah Lee writes: > > On Aug 2, 12:10 am, sam jesse wrote: > >> I installed Aspell and not Ispell. > >> I now have Start > Programs > Aspell ... > >> can I start this application on its own to see if it is working fine? > > > type Win+r, then launch cmd.exe. > > cd to your aspell dir, then type aspell. It should run like that. > > >> it > >> does not seam to provide a short cut for running the application. > >> I seam to missing the bigger picture; why the error trace says ispell = when I > >> have aspell installed, I have ispell.el and ispell.elc in > >> C:\Documents and Settings\emp1\My Documents\emacs-22.3\lisp\textmodes > > > you need to tell emacs that your spelling program is aspell not > > ispell. > > > Richard Riley gave you this: > > >> I didnt see the whole thread, but does he have: > >> (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") > > > however, i cant' find the var ispell-program-name in my emacs. Don't > > I'm not sure what you mean by "can't find". > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell#toc5 > > ,---- > | You might be interested in using a different spell checker. In > | particular, Aspell is a fairly new replacement for much of Ispell=92s > | functionality. Fortunately, using Aspell with Emacs is very easy: > | > | (setq ispell-program-name "aspell") > | > | (Aspell has an Ispell-emulation mode, so it behaves like ispell.el > | expects.) > | > | For lots more information on Aspell, see the Aspell website: > | > | *http://aspell.net/ > | > | Compared with Ispell, Aspell is much better at coming up with suggested > | spellings, and at putting them in likely order. This is particularly > | useful when used with flyspell-auto-correct-previous-word, where you ca= n > | iterate through suggested spellings =96 it=92s much more useful when th= e > | correct spelling is near the head of the list. > | > | The problem with using aspell with flyspell is that in its default mode= , > | it it a lot slower than ispell. Fortunately, you can tell it to speed > | up, though this reduces somewhat the quality of its suggestions. So try > | this: > | > | (setq ispell-program-name "aspell") (setq ispell-extra-args > | '("--sug-mode=3Dultra")) > | > | According to the aspell documentation, =93ultra=94 is the fastest mode, > | which is still twice as slow as ispell; but I don=92t notice the > | difference from ispell on my machine. If your machine is fast enough, a > | better option might be to try =93fast=94 mode, which is twice as slow a= s > | =93ultra=94, but more accurate. The =93normal=94 mode, which is the asp= ell > | default, is even more accurate, but is reportedly 10 times slower than > | =93fast=94 mode, and on my machine it makes editing and motion around t= he > | buffer noticeably sluggish when in flyspell-mode. YMMV, depending on ho= w > | fast your machine is, and how big your word-lists are. > `----