From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:56:04 +0100 Message-ID: <874mu49zvv.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415807813 24584 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2014 15:56:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:56:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 12 16:56:48 2014 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 1XoaHn-0005Us-6O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:56:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55423 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoaHm-0004wS-T5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:56:46 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39665) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoaHR-0004ov-IX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:56:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoaHL-0002IB-5J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:56:25 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:36309) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XoaHK-0002G3-V3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:56:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XoaHH-0005Ai-Hs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:56:15 +0100 Original-Received: from 186.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net ([80.26.206.186]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:56:15 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 186.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:56:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 186.red-80-26-206.adsl.dynamic.ccgg.telefonica.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yci0iT7sAXR4w+oKuYmo4wO1QeQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:100899 Archived-At: 3246251196ryan@gmail.com writes: > In order to get ispell to work with Windows/Emacs I am following this Aspell guide: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AspellWindows > > However, it all of a sudden talk about a: > (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/path/to/your/.ispell") > > What is this about? AFAIK the personal dictionary is where your own words are stored. When an unknown word is found while spell-checking, you are offered the candidates for correcting it, but you also have the option of adding the word to your personal dictionary. I suppose that the .ispell file is created as soon as you add the first word to your personal dictionary. [snip] > I have tried: > (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi") This is wrong because you are trying to use a pre-existing regular dictionary as your personal dictionary. AFAIK the regular dictionaries are on a read-only format. [snip]