Billy So your first question was already answered. Debian's setup is *very* different from slackwares, and for a reason. Spending some time browsing /etc and it's subdirectories would be a good idea. Learning about the different options to dpkg is also handy, in this case "dpkg -L emacs | less" would have revealed that the init-file lives under /etc.
Billy> 2. Ispell _within_ emacs doesn't seem to work. Always complaint at Billy> the first unrecognised word with `ispell misalignment at Billy> <unrecognised : please retry' or something similar. Ispell started Billy> from a shell works fine. You didn't tell emacs about ispell. It works fine here with the following in my personal emacs init files: ;; --- for ispell.el and the ispell 3.1 executable (autoload 'ispell-word "ispell" "Check the spelling of word in buffer." t) (global-set-key "\e$" 'ispell-word) (autoload 'ispell-region "ispell" "Check the spelling of region." t) (autoload 'ispell-buffer "ispell" "Check the spelling of buffer." t) (autoload 'ispell-complete-word "ispell" "Look up word + complete it." t) (autoload 'ispell-change-dictionary "ispell" "Change ispell dictionary." t) (autoload 'ispell-message "ispell" "Check spelling of mail/news post.") I can't remember whether I used this prior to using Debian too, and don't know whether it's overkill because Debian's ispell/emacs know about these issues, but it works fine for me. Best, -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
