From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Dokos Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using aspell in emacs Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:38:35 -0400 Message-ID: <87bl85zmc4.fsf@alphaville.usersys.redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10734"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:1FsmIEorPunCxWL8P6jE79LviRs= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 16 20:39:18 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ltaRa-0002dS-7K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:39:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48082 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltaRZ-0006gH-8b for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:39:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltaR5-0006fp-BV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:46394) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ltaR4-0001jr-1r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 14:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ltaR2-00023K-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:38:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.248, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130923 Archived-At: henri-biard@francemel.fr writes: > Have been trying to set aspell for me to correct words instead of ispell. > But Have not found any information on how to call aspell commands in emacs. > Have installed aspell using synaptic package manager. C-h v ispell-program-name. Mine says: ,---- | ispell-program-name is a variable defined in ‘ispell.el’. | Its value is "/usr/bin/aspell" | | You can customize this variable. | | Documentation: | Program invoked by M-$ and M-x ispell-region commands. `---- And if I check `ispell.el' I see the choices: ,---- | (defcustom ispell-program-name | (or (executable-find "aspell") | (executable-find "ispell") | (executable-find "hunspell") | "ispell") `---- So if you have installed aspell and emacs can find it, it will use it automatically. -- Nick "There are only two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors." -Martin Fowler