Re: binding flyspell-correct-word to a key?

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 19 May 2006 09:41:45 -0600 Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> emacs user wrote:
>> would anyone happen to know how to bind flyspell-correct-word to a key
>> under xterm with no X-windows?  thanks...  EU
>
> You can't, because that command requires an event argument via
> (interactive "e"), and the Emacs Lisp manual explains the
> `e' code:
>
> [...]
>
> Maybe you could define a new command that calls flyspell-correct-word
> with a synthetic generated event, and then bind the new
> command to a key.  (The event is passed to mouse-set-point
> and flyspell-emacs-popup,

or just use

,----[ C-h f flyspell-auto-correct-word RET ]
| flyspell-auto-correct-word is an interactive compiled Lisp function in 
`flyspell.el'.
| It is bound to C-., M-TAB.
| (flyspell-auto-correct-word)
| 
| Correct the current word.
| This command proposes various successive corrections for the current word.
| 
`----

David