From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jpkotta Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs's spell check feature problems (criticism) Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 08:40:06 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <15d4d5fa-e0fe-48fa-bc97-49c901ec514e@s1g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <3f46824b-45ab-4dc0-a66f-1a3db86cc965@a16g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <29244ebe-0532-4600-a2f4-3c03adc7c67f@z33g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <97ce0505-c072-427d-8ade-a3c4f2aeca0d@a2g2000prd.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291823915 2548 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 15:58:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:58:35 +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 Dec 08 16:58:31 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQMPW-0005AE-Bw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:58:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60296 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQMPV-0002qV-Fv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 10:58:29 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.122.85.37 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1275061206 6341 127.0.0.1 (28 May 2010 15:40:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 15:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.122.85.37; posting-account=EwI0QQoAAADdqmqX_mVfawBNtwyks2YE User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux x86_64; U; en) Presto/2.5.24 Version/10.54,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:178461 comp.emacs:99870 comp.lang.lisp:288433 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:75571 Archived-At: On May 27, 8:16=A0pm, Xah Lee wrote: > On May 25, 3:52=A0pm, Xah Lee wrote: > =AB > Some criticism about emacs spell checking feature. > > =95 Emacs Spell Checker Problems > =A0=A0http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_spell_checker_problems.html > =BB > > On May 27, 10:46=A0am, jpkotta wrote: > > > The error is because speck-hunspell-default-dictionary-name is nil. > > If I set speck-hunspell-library-directory to the directory where my > > hunspell dictionaries are (which is /usr/share/myspell/dicts on my > > system), I can enable the mode with no errors. > > thanks. That will help. > > > I still can't seem to > > make it do anything useful, though. > > you mean it doesn't do spell check for you? or do you mean you prefer > flyspell-mode than speck-mode?? > I have some of the same complaints about flyspell, so I want to see if I like speck-mode better. I can't get speck-mode to spell check for me. I had some deliberately misspelled words, and ran speck-region and speck-line so that it should have found them. speck-line complained about no "speck process", so maybe I still have more stuff to set up. It also didn't find anything when I initially turned on speck-mode. I haven't put much effort in, though.