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.
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")
GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux Notes 1
GNU/Linux Notes 2
OS X
OS X Notes 1
OS X Notes 2
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.
Windows Notes 1
Windows Notes 2
Emacs-24
Emacs-24 specific notes.
Emacs-24 specific notes 1
Emacs-24 specific notes 2
Emacs-23
Emacs-23 is not as great as Emacs-24. You will have these problems and you can workaround it this way.
Emacs-23 specific notes 1
Emacs-23 specific notes 2
Emacs-22
Seriously...Why are you even looking at this? You suck. Your Emacs sucks. Your organization sucks.
Emacs-24 specific notes 1
Emacs-24 specific notes 2
Recommended Reading
Project Pages
- International Ispell
- Official Home page and lots of dictionaries