From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs's spell check feature problems (criticism) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:16:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <97ce0505-c072-427d-8ade-a3c4f2aeca0d@a2g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <15d4d5fa-e0fe-48fa-bc97-49c901ec514e@s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <3f46824b-45ab-4dc0-a66f-1a3db86cc965@a16g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <29244ebe-0532-4600-a2f4-3c03adc7c67f@z33g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291823564 624 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 15:52:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:52:44 +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 Dec 08 16:52:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMJr-0001GB-I8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:52:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51292 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQMJq-0007eG-VD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:52:39 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a2g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275009391 3786 127.0.0.1 (28 May 2010 01:16:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 01:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a2g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.55 Safari/533.4, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178459 comp.emacs:99869 comp.lang.lisp:288417 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75563 Archived-At: On May 25, 3:52=C2=A0pm, Xah Lee wrote: =C2=AB Some criticism about emacs spell checking feature. =E2=80=A2 Emacs Spell Checker Problems =C2=A0http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_spell_checker_problems.html =C2=BB On May 27, 10:46=C2=A0am, jpkotta wrote: > The error is because speck-hunspell-default-dictionary-name is nil. > If I set speck-hunspell-library-directory to the directory where my > hunspell dictionaries are (which is /usr/share/myspell/dicts on my > system), I can enable the mode with no errors. thanks. That will help. > I still can't seem to > make it do anything useful, though. you mean it doesn't do spell check for you? or do you mean you prefer flyspell-mode than speck-mode?? Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84