hello eli, in deed what you write sounds for me a little bit like words from a crystal ball. i am not an experienced linux/unix-user and i don't know what a word-file is. i have installed aspell according the very clear instructions from paul bowman 1. Locate and download pre-compiled 4 windows packages for aspell and relevant dictionary from http://aspell.net/win32/ <http://aspell.net/win32/>
2. Run aspell installer then dictionary installer 3. add <install location>\Aspell\bin to PATH 4. add (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") to your .emacs 5. restart emacs and then i have installed egrep according your recommendation 1) install now grep for windows f.g the unxutils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ <http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/> ) 2) add the bin-path (..\usr\local\wbin) to to the path-variable. and now i get the follwing message running M-x ispell-complete-word: byte-code: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory thats my actual state. do you guess i shall add the following line to my .emacs-file (setq-default ispell-alternate-dictionary "C:\Programme\Aspell\dict\en-only.rws") again i don't know the word-file for unix or its counterpart for aspell. aspell has only dictionaries so far i know. thanks christian p.s. is there no common specified way (f.g. anywhere in the emacs manual or emacs faq or wiki or ...) for windows users configuring emacs for spell-checking and word completion. i didn't find it. ________________________________ Von: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Sa 29.07.2006 16:39 An: Strobl, Christian Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion > Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:23:11 +0200 > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > i have installed now the unxutils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) and > added the bin-path (..\usr\local\wbin) to to the path-variable. > now i am one step further and i get the following message > > byte-code: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory My crystal ball says that you don't have the `words' file. If it came with the speller distribution, customize the variable ispell-alternate-dictionary to point to its full absolute file name; if it didn't come with the speller, you need to find it somewhere (every Unix and GNU/Linux station has such a file somewhere) and install it on your system.
