From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to use ispell in emacs24.3 Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:42:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83ob7beisw.fsf@gnu.org> References: <2013092910062196744417@126.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=gb2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380469372 20639 80.91.229.3 (29 Sep 2013 15:42:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 15:42:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 29 17:42:56 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VQJ95-0006ed-FH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 17:42:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45123 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQJ95-0003KB-3y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:42:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQJ8o-0003Jo-Rg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQJ8h-0002aW-Jk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:38950) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VQJ8h-0002aJ-Bv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 11:42:31 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0MTW00H008SQB000@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:42:10 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0MTW00GTU8YAZU90@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Sep 2013 18:42:10 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <2013092910062196744417@126.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93752 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 10:06:24 +0800 > From: "xiaocai_2010@126.com" >=20 > First, I download the the ispell.el.3.7 beta from > http://www.kdstevens.com/stevens/ispell-page.html =A3=BB > Then, I copy it to the directory ~/site-lisp/=A3=ACand insert the l= ine "(require 'ispell)" to ~/.emacs file; > but when i start the emacs, there is a warning:=20 > "Symbol's function definition is void: exec-installed-p "=20 > So, what are the steps that can make the ispell is avaiable in my e= macs24.3 (OS: windows7)=20 You are using ages-old version of ispell.el. Emacs comes with a much more current version of ispell.el, so just use that. It works on Windows as well, if you have the speller program installed. Therefore, begin by deleting that ispell.el from site-lisp, and then try again.