ispell/aspell personal dictionary, this time on Windows

ispell/aspell personal dictionary, this time on Windows

[djc]

With "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)" and aspell 0.50.3 I'm struggling with how to define and maintain personal word lists for four different languages. I find myself swamped in the different versions of aspell, multiple ispell.el variables related to personal dictionaries, and command-line arguments passed to aspell.

The goal is to use a language-specific personal dictionary that corresponds to the language being checked, to update that dictionary routinely whenever I specify to add a word, and to be able to switch personal dictionaries when switching among languages within a buffer.

I'd love to see a unified description of how accomplish this, or a real-world example, especially from someone who has it working.

And then I want...

djc

Re: ispell/aspell personal dictionary, this time on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 12:06:59 -0700 (PDT)
> From: djc <peter.kaiser@gmail.com>
> 
> With "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601)" and aspell 0.50.3 I'm struggling with how to define and maintain personal word lists for four different languages. I find myself swamped in the different versions of aspell, multiple ispell.el variables related to personal dictionaries, and command-line arguments passed to aspell.
> 
> The goal is to use a language-specific personal dictionary that corresponds to the language being checked, to update that dictionary routinely whenever I specify to add a word, and to be able to switch personal dictionaries when switching among languages within a buffer.
> 
> I'd love to see a unified description of how accomplish this, or a real-world example, especially from someone who has it working.

I never used aspell on Windows, but with Hunspell, this all happens
automatically: for each language XYZ the speller saves your personal
dictionary in the file ~/hunspell_XYZ (on Unix, on ~/.hunspell_XYZ).
I never needed to define any variables for that to work; the moment
you switch the dictionary to use some other language, the personal
dictionary is automatically switched as well.

AFAIR, this worked like that with Ispell as well, so I'd be surprised
to learn that aspell doesn't behave that way.

Re: ispell/aspell personal dictionary, this time on Windows

[djc]

> AFAIR, this worked like that with Ispell as well, so I'd be surprised
> to learn that aspell doesn't behave that way.

Since I haven't yet found how to make personal dictionaries work at all with the above combination of emacs and aspell, it's a moot point.  But if hunspell solves the problem, I'd ask how to make hunspell work with emacs ispell.

djc

Re: ispell/aspell personal dictionary, this time on Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2014 16:14:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: djc <peter.kaiser@gmail.com>
> 
> > AFAIR, this worked like that with Ispell as well, so I'd be surprised
> > to learn that aspell doesn't behave that way.
> 
> Since I haven't yet found how to make personal dictionaries work at all with the above combination of emacs and aspell, it's a moot point.  But if hunspell solves the problem, I'd ask how to make hunspell work with emacs ispell.

Emacs already supports Hunspell, so just setting ispell-program-name
to point to the Hunspell executable should be enough.