From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing the default spelling dictionary to British English Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: <8tnnidF7ihU1@mid.individual.net> <87vcztmaib.fsf@fh-trier.de> <8tq8t7FqdnU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301208072 24545 80.91.229.12 (27 Mar 2011 06:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:41:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 27 08:41:08 2011 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 1Q3jes-000871-KP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 08:41:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33034 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q3jes-0004cC-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:41:06 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 36 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1301207803 23245 166.84.1.2 (27 Mar 2011 06:36:43 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2011 06:36:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:186331 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:80459 Archived-At: In article <8tq8t7FqdnU1@mid.individual.net>, Peter Flynn wrote: >On 08/03/11 23:57, Andreas Politz wrote: >> Peter Flynn writes: >> >>> how to change the default spellcheck dictionary from American English >>> to British English (permanently) >> >> M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET TAB > >Interesting. That gives me a choice of american or default. Only. > >Easy to fix, but I would have expected a recent Ubuntu (10.4) where >en-GB was specified to have installed ispell correctly. > >> Pick the-right-one and put >> >> (setq ispell-dictionary "the-right-one") > >Finding the right name was the trick, many thanks. > >And thanks to all those who responded. > >///Peter So please clue us in too -- just what did you find? (So others can do the same thing, without all the grief that you went through. And maybe even it can go into the manual/info? ) Thanks, David