From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: 3246251196ryan@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ispell for Windows (ASPELL dict' problem) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:37:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415814025 9439 80.91.229.3 (12 Nov 2014 17:40:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:40:25 +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 Nov 12 18:40:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xobtz-0004Xe-GG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:40:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56101 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xobtz-0004hR-0v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:40:19 -0500 X-Received: by 10.182.33.134 with SMTP id r6mr37709981obi.34.1415813865830; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:37:45 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.140.106.166 with SMTP id e35mr19597qgf.37.1415813865803; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:37:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!r10no1937078igi.0!news-out.google.com!u1ni9qah.0!nntp.google.com!u7no1132127qaz.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=194.39.218.10; posting-account=yK8oPQoAAAA1qIT_h_OI91dtN6mGEacV Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.39.218.10 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:37:45 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208622 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100900 Archived-At: On Wednesday, 12 November 2014 15:56:34 UTC, =D3scar Fuentes wrote: > 3246251196ryan@gmail.com writes: >=20 > > In order to get ispell to work with Windows/Emacs I am following this A= spell 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? >=20 > 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. >=20 > I suppose that the .ispell file is created as soon as you add the first > word to your personal dictionary. >=20 > [snip] >=20 > > I have tried: > > (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "C:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/dict/en= _GB.multi") >=20 > 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. >=20 > [snip] Thanks Oscar, I have simply pointed to an arbitrarily located .ispell (in my .emacs.d) an= d now ispell/aspell works fine. Cheers.