Spell check

{{{1}}} is a wonderful mode which does wonderful things.

Basic setup

You can use either aspell or hunspell.

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")

Windows

Links to precompiled binaries are dead at time of writing.

I got RPMs from 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.

Emacs-24

Emacs-24 specific notes.

Emacs-23

Emacs-23 is not as great as Emacs-24. You will have these problems and you can workaround it this way.

Emacs-22

Seriously...Why are you even looking at this? You suck. Your Emacs sucks. Your organization sucks.

Recommended Reading

• Internal Link1
• Internal Link2

Project Pages

International Ispell

Official Home page and lots of dictionaries

• International, Interactive Spell checker

Tutorial Pages

Spell checker problems

Xahlee's notes and tutorials

External Links

• Emacswiki:InteractiveSpell