Re: ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem)

[3246251196ryan@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, 12 November 2014 15:56:34 UTC, Óscar Fuentes  wrote:
> 3246251196ryan@gmail.com writes:
> 
> > In order to get ispell to work with Windows/Emacs I am following this Aspell guide:
> >
> > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AspellWindows
> >
> > However, it all of a sudden talk about a:
> > (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/path/to/your/.ispell")
> >
> > What is this about?
> 
> AFAIK the personal dictionary is where your own words are stored. When
> an unknown word is found while spell-checking, you are offered the
> candidates for correcting it, but you also have the option of adding the
> word to your personal dictionary.
> 
> I suppose that the .ispell file is created as soon as you add the first
> word to your personal dictionary.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > I have tried:
> > (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en_GB.multi")
> 
> This is wrong because you are trying to use a pre-existing regular
> dictionary as your personal dictionary. AFAIK the regular dictionaries
> are on a read-only format.
> 
> [snip]

Thanks Oscar,

I have simply pointed to an arbitrarily located .ispell (in my .emacs.d) and now ispell/aspell works fine.

Cheers.