Re: Flyspell error

[Xah Lee]

Lennart Borgman answered the question. Thanks.

for me, i use speck.el, which i find better than ispell based flyspell-
* etc.

 Xah

On Aug 2, 1:28 pm, Richard Riley <rileyrg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Aug 2, 12:10 am, sam jesse <rev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I installed Aspell and not Ispell.
> >> I now have Start > Programs > Aspell ...
> >> can I start this application on its own to see if it is working fine?
>
> > type Win+r, then launch cmd.exe.
> > cd to your aspell dir, then type aspell. It should run like that.
>
> >> it
> >> does not seam to provide a short cut for running the application.
> >> I seam to missing the bigger picture; why the error trace says ispell when 
> >> I
> >> have aspell installed, I have ispell.el and ispell.elc in
> >> C:\Documents and Settings\emp1\My Documents\emacs-22.3\lisp\textmodes
>
> > you need to tell emacs that your spelling program is aspell not
> > ispell.
>
> > Richard Riley gave you this:
>
> >> I didnt see the whole thread, but does he have:
> >> (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
>
> > however, i cant' find the var ispell-program-name in my emacs. Don't
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "can't find".
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell#toc5
>
> ,----
> | You might be interested in using a different spell checker. In
> | particular, Aspell is a fairly new replacement for much of Ispell’s
> | functionality. Fortunately, using Aspell with Emacs is very easy:
> |
> |     (setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
> |
> | (Aspell has an Ispell-emulation mode, so it behaves like ispell.el
> | expects.)
> |
> | For lots more information on Aspell, see the Aspell website:
> |
> |     *http://aspell.net/
> |
> | Compared with Ispell, Aspell is much better at coming up with suggested
> | spellings, and at putting them in likely order. This is particularly
> | useful when used with flyspell-auto-correct-previous-word, where you can
> | iterate through suggested spellings – it’s much more useful when the
> | correct spelling is near the head of the list.
> |
> | The problem with using aspell with flyspell is that in its default mode,
> | it it a lot slower than ispell. Fortunately, you can tell it to speed
> | up, though this reduces somewhat the quality of its suggestions. So try
> | this:
> |
> |     (setq ispell-program-name "aspell") (setq ispell-extra-args
> |     '("--sug-mode=ultra"))
> |
> | According to the aspell documentation, “ultra” is the fastest mode,
> | which is still twice as slow as ispell; but I don’t notice the
> | difference from ispell on my machine. If your machine is fast enough, a
> | better option might be to try “fast” mode, which is twice as slow as
> | “ultra”, but more accurate. The “normal” mode, which is the aspell
> | default, is even more accurate, but is reportedly 10 times slower than
> | “fast” mode, and on my machine it makes editing and motion around the
> | buffer noticeably sluggish when in flyspell-mode. YMMV, depending on how
> | fast your machine is, and how big your word-lists are.
> `----