[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
This is specifically for the EmacsW32 folks. After a few years happily
plodding along with 21.3 on Win2K (and NT4!), I've finally decided to
try and get with the times and move up to trying 22 + EmacsW32 package
at home (and the v 23 alpha + EW32 at work for the purposes of living
dangerously).
So far I'm pretty happy with everything except the situation with spell
checking. Given that I use Emacs a lot for human text production as well
as code, I naturally need a spell checker pretty much straight away,
however Emacs32 out of the box just gives you a "Searching for program:
no such file or directory, ispell" error when you try to spell check.
OK, it's understandable that you don't necessarily want to start
bundling too much in with the basic package, but I couldn't find any
help in the documentation at ourcomments.org. The general state of
online documentation for getting the spell checking working is fairly
poor. I went with aspell at home (which doesn't appear to have any
development since 2002?) which was a bit of a struggle to setup without
a straight-forward HOWTO in any one place. Any ideas on this? It is a
pretty fundamental feature IMO.
Hi Paul,
I wish I knew more about aspell and what information to put in the
EmacsW32 docs. I believe the best I can do is to point to EmacsWiki (for
example http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/CategorySpelling) and tell
that there is an aspell compiled for MS Windows. But at the moment a
rather old one. I have just mailed the maintainer of this port and asked
about plans to port a later version.
I really wonder what FireFox etc does. The author of aspell writes that
he wanted it to be used with Firefox. Has that happened? Is there
another spell checker bundled with Firefox?
Unfortunately bundling aspell with EmacsW32 is not a good idea since
aspell + dictionaries is quite large.
