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 at 15:21aspelland perhaps problems also withhunspellon 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 at 18:39