From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setup spell checking in windows emacs with emacsW32
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 23:16:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Xf2dncbgbMQ-mb_XnZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437c6633-147e-4e12-91de-85767bf72295@k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-31 4:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-30 14:48 setup spell checking in windows emacs with emacsW32 Xah Lee
2009-05-31 4:16 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2009-05-31 7:11 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-31 16:42 ` B. T. Raven
2009-06-01 0:09 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-01 4:51 ` Xah Lee
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