First, how to set up aspell. Get it from [url=http://aspell.net/]its Web site[/url]. Compile and install with
./configure --disable-curses gmake pfexec gmake install You need to add at least one dictionary for aspell. You can get them from the aspell Web site and install them by following the directions in the README file (the usual configure/make/make install). Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in your PATH. Add the following to your .emacs file: (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") And that's it. Spell checking works the way it does under Emacs with any recent Linux distro I've tried (not that I've done a lot of testing). Now, here's how I set up Hunspell. Download it from [url=http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/]SourceForge[/url]. Compilation and installation works in the usual way (using gmake instead of make). To make it use the Myspell/Hunspell dictionaries that are supplied as IPS packages, add the following to your .bashrc: export DICPATH=/usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries export DICTIONARY=en-US Hunspell now works from the command line. Here's a sample session: u...@diotima:~$ hunspell Hunspell 1.2.8 cet & cet 15 0: vet, cwt, ct, et, cent, cert, etc, set, cit, cat, net, cot, let, cut, get To set up Emacs for use of Hunspell, I put the following in my .emacs file: (eval-after-load "ispell" (progn (setq ispell-dictionary "en-US" ispell-extra-args '("-i" "utf-8") ; aspell doesn't understand -i utf-8, hunspell needs it ispell-silently-savep t))) (setq-default ispell-program-name "hunspell") I got the template for this from [url=http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell]the Emacs Wiki[/url]. (I removed "-a" from ispell-extra-args since it doesn't make any difference, and since ispell.el seems to pass it to Hunspell already, without its inclusion in ispell-extra-args.) If you try to spell check a word by using "M-x ispell-word", you get the error message "ispell-get-word: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". "M-x ispell-buffer" produces Spell checking test-buffer using hunspell with en-US dictionary... Spell-checking using hunspell with en-US dictionary done ispell-get-line: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil >From what I can tell by Googling, you run into the same problem if you try to >use Emacs with Hunspell under Linux. Hunspell and/or ispell.el need to be >changed to work with each other correctly. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
