dear eli, there is no words-file at my windows xp system and with this little info about it you gave i have no chance to find it with google (search words: linux words or similiar gave no usefull results). thanks for your help anyway christian but there are still a few not yet answered questions i have: 1) first of all: 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. 2) maybe anybody else had the same problem with aspell and word completion, so i describe here my generall proceeding: 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/
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 the recommendation from eli zaretskji 1) install now grep for windows f.g the unxutils (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. i have searched the internet for such a words-file, but i didn't find it. it would be very nice if you could give me instructions which a new emacs user without a great experience in linux or unix can understand for example i tested the following line in the emacs-file, but i don't know if that a promising attempt anyway: (setq-default ispell-alternate-dictionary "C:\Programme\Aspell\dict\en-only.rws") ________________________________ Von: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Sa 29.07.2006 17:52 An: Strobl, Christian Cc: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: AW: AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion > Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:35:23 +0200 > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 didn't say ``a word-file'', I said the `words' file, a file whose name is `words'. Please look for such a file on your system, and if it isn't there, install it in one of the ways I suggested.
