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kai@achernar.nada.kth.se (Kai-Mikael Jää-Aro) writes:

> Is it possible to get Emacs to use the Macintosh spellcheck and
> dictionaries, or do I have to install ispell with corresponding
> dictionaries?

Almost anything is possible with Emacs, but it's not even easy to get
native OS X applications to use Apple's spellcheck system.  ispell
and aspell are straightforward and easy to get working in Emacs.