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Re: emacs & spell checking broke



On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 01:15:32 +1000
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 16, 2003 at 11:31:48AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> > A quick question concerning emacs & spell checking.
> > 
> > I have emacs20/emacs21 installed, and aspell, aspell-bin, aspell-en,
> > to work with sylpheed.
> > 
> > Since aspell, evidently supersedes ispell, now emacs does not spell
> > check, complaining about not finding ispell.
> > 
> > What are my options to getting emacs to spell check again?
> 
> I have this in my ~/.emacs and can spell-check with aspell just fine:
> 
> ;; Use aspell
> (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
> ;;Setup some dictionary languages
> (setq ispell-dictionary "british")
> (setq flyspell-default-dictionary "british")
> 

Thanks. I've been attempting to use this, except using aspell-en, and I
am unable to find the correct syntax to get it to work. I'll keep
tinkering with it.

Again, thank you very much.

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