I have an init file that loads two files: one from customization done from within emacs and other from my custom settings file - better-defaults.el
.
I have tried various options like ispell-local-dictionary "en_US"
, ispell-dictionary "american"
and a few other flycheck declarations with setq-default
inside better-defaults.el
, but spell check is not working.
How do I enable spellcheck with American dictionary on the fly?
I'm using Emacs 26 on Windows 10.
aspell.exe
? Emacs does not have its own spellchecker per se -- the Lisp files that come with Emacs rely upon the presence of an external program to do the actual spell checking. The Lisp files just search for a word, but they do not know whether the word is wrong or right .... – lawlist Jul 20 '19 at 15:21aspell
and perhaps problems also withhunspell
on Windows 10 when using Emacs: emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/41892/… The thread contains some other suggestions you may wish to explore. I have never read anything about native spellchecker support for Emacs on Windows (any version) .... I would guess that this does not exist. – lawlist Jul 20 '19 at 18:39