Re: setup spell checking in windows emacs with emacsW32

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Xah Lee wrote:
> just bought a PC and installed Lennart's EmacsW32, which is really
> fantastic.
> 
> how to set the spell checking up though? i.e. ispell-word or flyspell-
> buffer.
> 
> when i run ispell-word, it gives:
> “apply: Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell”.
> 
> i read most emacsW32 doc and emacswiki, but didn't seems to find the
> answer.
> 
> Do i need to set a path to cygwin ispell or something? (i have aspell
> installed in cygwin, but not ispell yet)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> 

Lennart's Emacs is patched native w32 build I think. You might need 
aspell from here:

http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/repository/aspell/

I don't know whether you also need w32 kde or not or even what that 
might mean. If you learn anything, let me know how you use ispell-aspell 
for other languages than English. The relevant line from ispell.el is:

(defcustom ispell-program-name
   (or (locate-file "aspell" exec-path exec-suffixes 'file-executable-p)
       "ispell")
   "Program invoked by \\[ispell-word] and \\[ispell-region] commands."
   :type 'string
   :group 'ispell)

but most of the paths in this file refer to glunix directory structure 
so I don't know how it applies to w32. Maybe if you had Lennart's Emacs 
running and also had a cygwin bash shell process, Emacs might find your 
aspell program.

Ed