[Aspell-user] Aspell 0.50.3 (win32) integration with emacs21.2.1

[Ralf Hauser]

Following the manual instructions
(http://savannah.gnu.org/download/aspell/manual/user/3_Basic.html#SECTION004
22000000000000000) unfortunately wasn't successful for me.
Aspell works fine for en-US when using the desktop mouse-right-click "Send
To - aspell".

In emacs, I get to the following errors depending on
what I put into my ~/.emacs:

1) <<Error: You must specify a parameter for
--data-dir>> is given with
'(ispell-extra-args (quote ("--conf-dir=" "c:/aspell"
"--dict-dir=" "c:/aspell/dict" "--data-dir="
"c:/aspell/data")))
'(ispell-program-name "aspell")

2) <<Error: No word lists can be found for the language
"en_US".
>> when the extra args are changed to:
'(ispell-extra-args (quote ("--conf-dir=" "c:/aspell"
"--dict-dir=\"c:\\aspell\\dict\""
"--data-dir=\"c:/aspell/data\"")))
same if it is
'(ispell-extra-args (quote ("--prefix=\"c:\\aspell\""
"--dict-dir=\"c:\\aspell\\dict\""
"--data-dir=\"c:\\aspell\\data\"")))

3) <<Continuing spelling check using default
dictionary...>>
is displayed when no ispell-extra-args are defined and
then, emacs hangs

4) <<LINES value must be >= 2 and <= 14112: got 1
initscr(): LINES=1 COLS=1: too small.>> occurs when I
start a shell inside emacs and type
"aspell -c g.m4"

Any hints on what to do with those would be greatly
appreciated!

P.S.: Also, it would be great if such error messages
and hints on
i) what could have gone wrong or ii) how to diagnose
further would be added as a diagnostic section to the manual.

I suggested this to the tracker also.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=655613&group_id=245
&atid=100245