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In Aquamacs, the Emacs for macs, the dictionary can be changed in the Menu by going to Edit -> Spelling -> Change Dictionary...
In my case, I enter en_GB. How do I avoid doing this for every file again every time I open it? Where can I set this permanently as the default for all files?
I suppose I need to add a line in Preferences.el - but which one?
Neither of these two lines work
(setq ispell-dictionary "en_GB")
(setq ispell-dictionary "british")
There's a variable called ispell-dictionary, whose docstring you can see with C-h v ispell-dictionary (note that you can use completion there, so this is a way to find variables named ispell-something).
ispell-dictionary is a variable defined in ‘ispell.el’. Its value is "francais" Original value was nil
Documentation: Default dictionary to use if ‘ispell-local-dictionary’ is nil.
You can customize this variable.
Click (or type enter) on the customize link to customize its value. In the customize buffer, you will be able to change its value and save it through the State button.
