Hi,
Thank you very much for your phantastic spell checker.
Because of Uwe Siarts article "Installation von GNU Emacs and AUCTeX unter
MS Windows" in the "Die TeXnische Komoedie", issue 4/2004 I have tried to
use Aspell under Emacs with Windows 98/II. (The article is available on
Uwe's Homepage only in German
http://www.uwe-siart.de/typografie/latex.html
Because it was a not so easy task here my steps:
a) My clean emacs installation is GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (2004-03-10) from
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs
b) I got Aspell for win32 from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/w32/Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup.exe
After setting (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") and setting the
environment variable path to the aspell/bin path all should work. I have
opened a *.tex file and then Tools->Spell Checking ->Spell-check buffer.
1. call: starting new ispell process...
aspell did not output version line
2. call: Ispell misalignment: word `#)' point 1; probably incompatible versions
3. call: now Aspell works: menu-bar tools spell ispell-buffer-
The second error message will be left out if I wait a long time (about 3
minutes).
Then Aspell is working but my local dictionary where I insert new words
with "i" will not be updated even when I click on Save Dictionary. No
entries in *.pws. What's going on here? Let's do a look in ispell.el
(version 3.4). It seems that all commands are passed to Aspell like the
Aspell docu is saying for "through a pipe". O.k. line 1722 might be wrong,
Aspell wants a "&" for putting a word in lowercase letters in the pws. Hm.
But your mailing list has helped me a lot. Message
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/aspell-user/2004-04/msg00034.html
points to
http://www.kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html
where I have downloaded the latest development release 3.7beta and replaced
the emacs ispell.el (version 3.4) by this file. And I have set the
environmental variable $home to an appropriate location. Then all is
working phantastic, Aspell is saving my *.pws in $home no error messages
any more, quick start in Emacs.
BTW: If you have problems with your environmental variables and do not want
to increase the reserved memory for them (see
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;230205 for a
resolution) you can put the path to Aspell in your emacs startup file e.g.
(setq-default ispell-program-name "f:/programme/aspell/bin/aspell")
This will also work.
Thank you very much for your phantastic program!
Best regards
Harald
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