Questions tagged [ispell]
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In Emacs, where is ispell's personal dictionary stored?
In Emacs, where is ispell's personal dictionary stored?, the documentation http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Spelling.html says
Your personal dictionary is specified by the variable ispell-personal-dictionary. If that is…
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Spell check with multiple dictionaries
How can I use multiple dictionaries with the Emacs spell checker? Specifically I want to use a British English dictionary and a medical English dictionary at the same time.
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How can I make flyspell ignore urls?
When I use flyspell-mode, it reports spelling errors whenever I type a URL. Is there a way I can tell Flyspell to stop checking URLs?
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How can I use Company to spell-check a word?
company-ispell can complete a word at point, but what if you want
to use Company to list the possible corrections for spelling?
As an added bonus, is there any way to integrate this into Flyspell?
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Pure elisp spell checking in Emacs
The question What options are there for doing spell-checking in emacs discuss various spell checking solutions for Emacs.
Emacs ispell interface uses external tools such as Aspell or Hunspell for spell checking.
Considering the fact that many free…
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call interactive function from elisp code without worrying about arguments
So, I want to do (ispell-change-dictionary) inside a function I'm writing, but doing a test throws this error:
(wrong-number-of-arguments #[(dict &optional arg)
I was told that M-x calls the function without arguments. Well, I did the same but for…
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Where is ispell?
I just upgraded to Emacs 24 and can't find ispell. If I try to use ispell I get the error message:
Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell
After a small amount of searching on the Unix & Linux SE, I found that I should put this…
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What is the relationship between Emacs and various spellcheckers (ispell, etc.)?
A. Is there a spellchecker built in to Emacs?
This seems to say that there is a "built-in ispell package" that "handles spell-checking and correction".
The manual (Emacs > Fixit > Spelling > 16.4) makes it sound like nothing is built in: "These…
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How to move back to a previous typo in ispell?
When running M-x ispell, is it possible to go back to the previous typo? For example, I accidentally pass a typo and want to go back to it.
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The format of ispell personal dictionary
I'm having difficulty getting flyspell to accept a personal dictionary.
In my .emacs file I have the line:
(setq ispell-personal-dictionary "~/.karpov_dic")
This .karpov_dic file only has a few words such as:
Orionis
Virginis
The words are…
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how to install Aquamacs' OSX spellchecker (NSSpellChecker) in GNU Emacs?
Spellcheck in Aquamacs works much better than either the default aspell or the improved hunspell.
Example typo: whtehr
Here are the suggestions provided by the various engines when I do flyspell-auto-correct-word.
Aspell: Corrections: whiter water…
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Ispell + Hunspell recognizes everything after the apostrophe a different word
I'm using flyspell-mode with ispell and hunspell - as the dictionary backend, the problem is: if I type a word, for example you've or you're it recognizes ve and re as individual words. I want to fix that so it recognizes apostrophes as part of…
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How to set the Ispell language via a file variable in Org-Mode?
I put the following in the beginning of the Org file:
* :noexport:
Local Variables:
ispell-local-dictionary: "american"
End:
#+EXPORT_EXCLUDE_TAGS: noexport
And I start flyspell via a hook:
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell)
But Ispell…
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Beginner: Doom Emacs, or Emacs in general: Which program is used for spellcheck-as-you-write in text mode and how to change its dictionary
I am learning how to work with Emacs on Ubuntu 20.04. After going through Tutorial and using default key-bindings for some time, I have decided to test more ergonomic (at least for me) setup - that is how I ended up in Doom Emacs.
First time using…
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Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US"
I am using GNU Emacs 26.1 on macOS Catalina.
When I try to enable ispell or flycheck-mode I am getting following error:
No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".
=> How could I fix this error?
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