ispell problem

ispell problem

[quasi]

Friends,
	I have emacs 21.2.1 running on windows98SE.  I am just
starting to use Emacs (due to Lisp programming).  When I try to
spell-check I get "no such file or directory, ispell".  I have
downloaded ispell and put it in the "/home/site/ispell/" directory.

thanks,
quasi
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What?

Re: ispell problem

[Michael Slass]

quasi <quasiabhi@yahoo.com> writes:

>Friends,
>	I have emacs 21.2.1 running on windows98SE.  I am just
>starting to use Emacs (due to Lisp programming).  When I try to
>spell-check I get "no such file or directory, ispell".  I have
>downloaded ispell and put it in the "/home/site/ispell/" directory.
>

On Windows, I'm betting the path to ispell starts with a drive letter
followed by a colon.  In any event, ispell needs to be in your exec-path

(add-to-list 'exec-path "c:/home/site/ispell")

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Mike Slass

Re: ispell problem

[notbob]

In article <m3u1k1zxhj.fsf@localhost.localdomain>, Michael Slass wrote:
> quasi <quasiabhi@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
>>Friends,
>>	I have emacs 21.2.1 running on windows98SE.  I am just
>>starting to use Emacs (due to Lisp programming).  When I try to
>>spell-check I get "no such file or directory, ispell".  I have
>>downloaded ispell and put it in the "/home/site/ispell/" directory.
>>
> 
> On Windows, I'm betting the path to ispell starts with a drive letter
> followed by a colon.  In any event, ispell needs to be in your exec-path
> 
> (add-to-list 'exec-path "c:/home/site/ispell")

Uhmmm...  don't forget those are backslashes... c:\home\site\ispell

nb

Re: ispell problem

[Jason Rumney]

notbob <notbob@nothome.com> writes:

> > On Windows, I'm betting the path to ispell starts with a drive letter
> > followed by a colon.  In any event, ispell needs to be in your exec-path
> > 
> > (add-to-list 'exec-path "c:/home/site/ispell")
> 
> Uhmmm...  don't forget those are backslashes... c:\home\site\ispell

It is safer to use forward slashes. Otherwise you need to remember to
escape those backslashes inside strings...  "c:\\home\\site\\ispell".

Re: ispell problem

[quasi]

On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 21:47:06 GMT, Michael Slass <miknrene@drizzle.com>
wrote:
>On Windows, I'm betting the path to ispell starts with a drive letter
>followed by a colon.  In any event, ispell needs to be in your exec-path
>
>(add-to-list 'exec-path "c:/home/site/ispell")

It worked!! Thanks a lot mate.
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What?

ispell problem

[Charles Stapleton]

I'm using Emacs 21.2.1 on Win 2000.  I downloaded ISpEnFrGe.exe from
http://www.luziusschneider.com/Speller/English/.   I installed it, and
pointed emacs to the ipell file using

(setq ispell-program-name "D:\\emacs-21.2\\lisp\\textmodes\\ispell.exe")

When I try to spell check I get the message "Can't open
c:\usr\local\lib\english.hash".  I could create this directory structure and
copy this hash file to it, but why is it not looking in the directory I
pointed it to? After all, it did find ispell.exe.

charles

Re: ispell problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Charles Stapleton" <cStapleton@no.junk>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 23:52:23 GMT
> 
> I'm using Emacs 21.2.1 on Win 2000.  I downloaded ISpEnFrGe.exe from
> http://www.luziusschneider.com/Speller/English/.   I installed it, and
> pointed emacs to the ipell file using
> 
> (setq ispell-program-name "D:\\emacs-21.2\\lisp\\textmodes\\ispell.exe")

Hmm... not a very good place for a program.  It's better to put it in
some directory mentioned in your PATH.

> When I try to spell check I get the message "Can't open
> c:\usr\local\lib\english.hash".  I could create this directory structure and
> copy this hash file to it, but why is it not looking in the directory I
> pointed it to?

You pointed it at the ispell.exe program, but you didn't point it at
the directory where it should find its dictionary.  You should set the
variable ispell-dictionary to the full path to the file ispell.hash as
installed on your system.  The default value of ispell-dictionary is
nil, which means ispell.exe will use the path hard-wired into it at
build time, which evidently is c:\usr\local\lib\english.hash.

ispell problem

[Shiyuan]

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Hi,
     when I invoke ispell from emacs menu, I got the error message: no word
lists can be found for the language "en_US".  But it used to work.
Ispell  runs well if I invoke it from command line. Any suggestion to
identify the problem? Thanks.

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Re: ispell problem

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:31:10 -0500
> From: Shiyuan <gshy2014@gmail.com>
> 
>      when I invoke ispell from emacs menu, I got the error message: no word
> lists can be found for the language "en_US".  But it used to work.
> Ispell  runs well if I invoke it from command line. Any suggestion to
> identify the problem? Thanks.

Crystal ball says you have aspell on your PATH before ispell, while
your dictionaries are set for ispell.  To see this, type this inside
Emacs:

  M-: ispell-program-name RET

If the above guess is correct, then either install the en_US
dictionary for aspell, or modify your PATH so that ispell is found
before aspell.