Spell check

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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


Tutorial Pages

Spell checker problems
Xahlee's notes and tutorials

External Links