From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Testing validity of a word Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:06:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87sf9ax4fb.fsf@dataswamp.org> References: <0iMfp4ZIF6AbexWeuBv10ON9NQqnHhsYhLbUaqzCte_f2yasnqcZbnZuHiCmWYiLZP_1DdWvaWLBlX0np-1eKeg-RUeySDbv8rya570hG9M=@proton.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9367"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:IhvIetJF03kNzPxwxeDWOI70Pis= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 26 17:13:45 2023 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 1qOgCu-0002Go-51 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 17:13:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qOfRu-0006Eb-Jm; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:25:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qOdLD-0005jT-U1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qOdLB-0001zI-LN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 08:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qOdL8-0003CA-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Jul 2023 14:10:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never 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: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:25:00 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144472 Archived-At: uzibalqa wrote: > I want to test whether a word is valid. Is there a package > in Emacs for dictionary word lookup ? (defun spell-word (word) (with-temp-buffer (save-excursion (insert word) ) (condition-case nil (not (ispell-word)) (error nil) ))) ;; (spell-word "length") ; t ;; (spell-word "lenght") ; nil -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal