From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: setup spell checking in windows emacs with emacsW32
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 11:42:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u6CdnZa2VqnNLr_XnZ2dnUVZ_vqdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ed59b475-5b0e-459c-b7a0-71b28aee3392@v4g2000vba.googlegroups.com>
Jason Rumney wrote:
> On May 31, 12:16 pm, "B. T. Raven" <ni...@nihilo.net> wrote:
>
>> Lennart's Emacs is patched native w32 build I think. You might need
>> aspell from here:
>>
>> http://www.winkde.org/pub/kde/ports/win32/repository/aspell/
>>
>> I don't know whether you also need w32 kde or not or even what that
>> might mean.
>
> You don't need KDE to use aspell. If you want to be sure that there
> are no KDE dependencies, you can also download aspell from http://aspell.net/win32/
Thanks, Jason. I did download that one first (1.19 meg
Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe) but then found the other 0.60 version (aspell
binary only). Can I install the 0.50 and then copy the newer file(s) on
top of them? All my GnuWin32 tools are in a flat directory C:\gnu and
this is included in my PATH, but after winnt/system32. Name collisions
like sort, ftp, etc. will try to run the MS versions first.
>
>> but most of the paths in this file refer to glunix directory structure
>
> If aspell.exe is in your PATH, Emacs will find it. But on Windows, it
> is conventional for installers to not put executables in the PATH, or
> even to set PATH to include the directory they install to.
> Unfortunately many installers for ports of GNU tools also follow this
> convention, even though GNU tools are designed to collaborate
> together, rather than be used as a monolithic application, so it may
> be necessary to customize ispell-program to the full path of
> aspell.exe.
So is this on the right track then:
(defcustom ispell-program-name
(or "C:/gnu/aspell"
"ispell")
;; anyway (or "this" "that") returns "this" without error in scratch
;; but the function in context wouldn't work in general if aspell
weren't there.
;; maybe this is a better guess:
(or (locate-file "c:/gnu/aspell" exec-path exec-suffixes 'file-executable-p)
"ispell")
"Program invoked by \\[ispell-word] and \\[ispell-region] commands."
:type 'string
:group 'ispell)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-31 16:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-30 14:48 setup spell checking in windows emacs with emacsW32 Xah Lee
2009-05-31 4:16 ` B. T. Raven
2009-05-31 7:11 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-31 16:42 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2009-06-01 0:09 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-01 4:51 ` Xah Lee
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