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= Basic setup =
 
= Basic setup =
  
You can use either '''aspell''' or '''hunspell'''.
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You need to install either '''aspell''' or '''hunspell'''.
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== On Windows==
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Links to pre compiled binaries are dead at time of writing.
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RPMs with the noarch.rpm extension refer to packages which do not depend on a certain computer's architecture (e.g. interpreted programming languages and shell scripts). The utility 7zip can unpack an RPM on Windows, and the enclosed cpio file archive.
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This did not help with the noarch RPMs I got from
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http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/
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The executable hunspell.exe aborted after not finding a dll file.
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After that dll was added, another dll was not found. I gave up after
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several iterations. This was with
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mingw32-hunspell-1.3.2-1.98.noarch.rpm and later
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mingw32-hunspell-1.3.2-1.99.noarch.rpm (and associated lang and tools
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RPMs).
  
 
= Useful commands =
 
= Useful commands =
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</source>
 
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==Project Pages==
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= [[GNU/Linux]] =
 
<!-- Customization/Notes specific to GNU/Linux goes here -->
 
== GNU/Linux Notes 1 ==
 
== GNU/Linux Notes 2 ==
 
 
 
<!-- Customization/Notes specific to Windows goes here -->
 
 
 
Links to precompiled binaries are dead at time of writing.
 
 
 
I got RPMs from [http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/ openSUSE], but hunspell.exe aborted after not finding a dll file. After that dll was added, another dll was not found. I gave up after several iterations. This was with mingw32-hunspell-1.3.2-1.98.noarch.rpm  and later mingw32-hunspell-1.3.2-1.99.noarch.rpm (and associated lang and tools RPMs).
 
Windows users be aware of this.
 
 
 
 
 
= Project Pages =
 
 
; [http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html International Ispell]
 
; [http://fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu/geoff/ispell.html International Ispell]
 
: Official Home page and lots of dictionaries
 
: Official Home page and lots of dictionaries
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= Tutorial Pages =
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== Tutorial Pages==
  
 
; [http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_spell_checker_problems.html Spell checker problems]
 
; [http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_spell_checker_problems.html Spell checker problems]
 
:  Xahlee's notes and tutorials
 
:  Xahlee's notes and tutorials
  
==External Links==
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== See Also ==
*[http://emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell Emacswiki:InteractiveSpell]
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* [[Flyspell-mode]]
  
  
 
[[Category:Text Editing]]
 
[[Category:Text Editing]]

Latest revision as of 10:44, 17 May 2017

Spell Checking is done by Emacs by calling external spell checkers.

Basic setup

You need to install either aspell or hunspell.

On Windows

Links to pre compiled binaries are dead at time of writing.

RPMs with the noarch.rpm extension refer to packages which do not depend on a certain computer's architecture (e.g. interpreted programming languages and shell scripts). The utility 7zip can unpack an RPM on Windows, and the enclosed cpio file archive.

This did not help with the noarch RPMs I got from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_Factory/noarch/ The executable hunspell.exe aborted after not finding a dll file.

After that dll was added, another dll was not found. I gave up after several iterations. This was with mingw32-hunspell-1.3.2-1.98.noarch.rpm and later mingw32-hunspell-1.3.2-1.99.noarch.rpm (and associated lang and tools RPMs).

Useful commands

M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET SPC
Check list of installed dictionaries.
M-x customize-variable RET ispell-dictionary
Configure default dictionary.
M-x add-file-local-variable RET ispell-dictionary RET TAB
Use this to change dictionary on per-file basis. This command will add this line to the file in question. Please save and re-load the file for new settings to take effect.
  -*- ispell-dictionary: "english" -*-


Common Customization

Hunspell

You need dictionary files for spell check to work. If you have installed OpenOffice or LibreOffice, then dictionary files are already there.

(setq-default ispell-program-name "hunspell")

Customization 2

(message "You can also do this customization")

Project Pages

International Ispell
Official Home page and lots of dictionaries


Tutorial Pages

Spell checker problems
Xahlee's notes and tutorials

See Also