Questions tagged [flyspell]
Flyspell enables on-the-fly spell checking in Emacs by the means of a minor mode (called Flyspell).
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flyspell: ignore certain words in a buffer, but not others?
There are some words I want flyspell to ignore in some buffers, but not others.
For example, in one buffer I want etaoin to not be flagged by flyspell because in that context it's not a misspelling (...
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How to write a function that goes through every misspelled word in a buffer one by one?
I wrote the following code to realize my preferred spellchecking scheme:
(defun flyspell-1by1-popup-correction ()
"When this function is called it first marks all incorrect words in a buffer ...
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Is Javascript supported by `flyspell-prog-mode`?
Which programming languages are supported by flyspell-prog-mode? Is Javascript?
I can get flyspell-prog-mode to spellcheck comments on Python buffers, but it doesn't seem to work on Javascript buffers....
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Emacs flyspell choices buffer hidden under tabbar
When using flyspell in Xemacs to correct spelling the buffer showing the list of choices is partially hidden under the tabbar elements at the top of the frame - I loose the bottom line of choices. Yup,...
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How to delay flyspell also after space?
Flyspell has flyspell-delay and flyspell-delayed-commands which delay the spellchecking process when point is still in the word. However, flyspell-delay is not taken into account after typing space. ...
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flyspell-buffer in flyspell-prog-mode
In my init.el I have
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
(add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode)
(add-hook 'flyspell-mode-hook 'flyspell-buffer)
but when I find a prog file, buffer isn't ...
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Why does ispell generates a process?
After fixing ispell to work on a new machine running macOS (see previous question), I was surprised to see it listed as one of my processes, see the image:
As text:
Process. PID. Status. Buffer. ...
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Why can't I use flyspell-mode? Error: (Searching for program No such file or directory ispell)
I am using Emacs on a macOS Monterey 12.5 with M1 hardware. This is my init file.
I used to use in a Linux (NixOS) machine this init file (or something very similar) without ever having a single ...
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Errors found by flyspell-buffer don't show when executing it when opening a file
This looks like the file is not "refreshed" when I execute flyspell-buffer when opening a file.
I have the following function:
(use-package flyspell
:load-path "custom/"
:init
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How to insert a flyspell hook on Magit via `use-package` declaration?
I am rewriting my Emacs config file to fully use use-package and organize code. Currently, I have
(use-package magit
:custom
(magit-display-buffer-function #'magit-display-buffer-same-window-...
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Activating Hunspell or Aspell on MacOS
Sorry, newbie question: I am trying to get spell checking to work in emacs on MacOSX 12.3.1
I installed emacs-plus as well as Aspell via Homebrew. I then added the following lines to my .emacs
(add-...
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Reload flyspell after changing ispell dictionary
Whenever I ispell-change-dictionary, I have to disable and re-enable flyspell-mode for flyspell to pick up the new dictionary.
Is there a way to automate this? It probably involves a post-command-hook,...
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Disable flyspell-mode by default
How do you disable flyspell-mode by default in spacemacs?
I don't see where it is enabled in the first place.
With customize-variable I can track down global-flycheck-mode, but they seem to be ...
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Flyspell and Ispell find different incorrect words
There are words that are considered to be wrong by Flyspell that are instead considered correct by Ispell. I thought that Flyspell was merely an async version of Ispell, I must be wrong...
To add to ...
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Error enabling flyspell in emacs - aspell MacOS
I am having some difficulty getting flyspell/aspell to run on emacs 27.2, MacOS 12.01. I think I need to install or enable a dictionary, but no ideas on how to do this.
If I type 'M-x flyspell-mode' I ...
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Error enabling Flyspell mode: Can't open ISO-8859-1
I have downloaded the hunspell build nto ~/lib/hunspell on my windows machine.
I have included these lines in my .emacs.d config
(setq tian/hunspell-directory (concat (expand-file-name "~/&...
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Flyspell: Ignore comments in LaTeX-documents
Whenever I run flyspell-buffer (using hunspell) in a LaTeX-document, my comments marked with % are spell-checked aswell, although I don't want them to be spell-checked. The simplest solution (setq ...
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Combine `flyspell-region` with`writegood-mode`
I would like to combine flyspell-region with writegood-mode, but writegood-mode does not provide a function to check a region of text.
This is what I came up with to work around the limitation:
(defun ...
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flyspell error enabling with nuspell
I want to use nuspell as my spellchecker for emacs. I have installed dictionary and it works fine when I call the program from terminal. But I got the following msg in emacs:
Error enabling Flyspell ...
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Error enabling Flyspell mode (Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US")
I recently saw my emacs (GNU Emacs 27.1 running on Arch Linux) throw this error:
Error enabling Flyspell mode:
(Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".)
when I visited a ...
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Flyspell not reading the complete word - FRENCH LANGUAGE
I am using flyspell for the first time.
For word with "^" inside, it looks like they are read as two separate words.
For example, below, the word "maître" is underlined, and the ...
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Beginner: Doom Emacs, or Emacs in general: Which program is used for spellcheck-as-you-write in text mode and how to change its dictionary
I am learning how to work with Emacs on Ubuntu 20.04. After going through Tutorial and using default key-bindings for some time, I have decided to test more ergonomic (at least for me) setup - that is ...
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flyspell and ispell give too many spelling suggestions
I'm using flyspell mode with aspell under the hood. Emacs 27.1 installed using Homebrew on macOS Mojave. This behavior happens both with my normal configuration as well as emacs -Q.
I looked through M-...
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flyspell no longer working on emacs28
Whenever I enable flyspell-mode on any file, I immediately get the below error:
Error in post-command-hook (flyspell-post-command-hook): (wrong-type-argument keymapp nil)
And after that flyspell ...
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Contstant getting "Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!" with flyspell mode
After I installed aspell with Emacs 26.3 and turned on flyspell mode, I constantly get the message:
Blocking call to accept-process-output with quit inhibited!
How to suppress these messages?
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Is it possible to disable flycheckspell for specific file names in text-mode?
I am actively using flyspell on all text files under text-mode.
For example: Under requirements.txt text file I am keeping my python packages where I do not need to enable flyspell. But since it is a ...
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Ispell + Hunspell recognizes everything after the apostrophe a different word
I'm using flyspell-mode with ispell and hunspell - as the dictionary backend, the problem is: if I type a word, for example you've or you're it recognizes ve and re as individual words. I want to fix ...
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Turn off flyspell mode for Greek and Hebrew but not English
I have flyspell activated for certain document types, e.g. txt and org. If I want to turn off flyspell for a specific document, I add # -*- eval: (flyspell-mode -1); -*- to the top of the file. This ...
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How to hook to functions?
I want to center my screen after calling flyspell-goto-next-error. If you have a "direct" solution please let me know, but I encounter the following issue more often:
I'm looking to hook to the ...
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How to use spell checking in PO mode for gettext translations files?
I've tried function I use my my Markdown and Polymode when editing my Jekyll blog with po-mode but it don't work at all:
I have code like this:
(defun lang (lang)
(interactive "sLanguage: ")
(...
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How to apply change from flyspell correction popup in Markdown mode?
This seems like such a dumb question. I'm using spacemacs and have in configuration-layers
(spell-checking :variables
enable-flyspell-auto-completion t)
So I'm in markdown and I ...
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How do I get flyspell to ignore pandoc citations in markdown
Flyspell regularly shows pandoc citations as a spelling error in markdown documents. For example @chu2017 will come up as a spelling error for 'chu'.
How can I get Flyspell ignore the citations and ...
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Skip flyspell checking of ~code~ and =verbatim= regions in Org mode
First some disambiguation:
This Endless Parentheses page demonstrates how to use ispell-skip-region-alist to skip =code= and =verbatim= blocks with ispell…
(defun endless/org-ispell ()
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Enabling `flyspell-prog-mode` starts `flyspell-mode` instead
I've been playing with flyspell lately and with my recently established setup for spell-check, I wanted to enable it for all modes. I found that flyspell-mode and flyspell-prog-mode are best for text-...
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Flyspell Not Working in AucTeX
A while back flyspell stopped working for me in AucTeX. I've been cleaning out my init.el file to see if I could fix the problem. I can still do M-x flyspell-mode when in a .tex file. But, I still ...
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Setting LOCAL aspell dictionary size
How to set local (per buffer) dictionary size used by aspell?
[aspell is used by my emacs as "ispell look alike"]
It can be set by --size=NN command line option of aspell.
I would like to set it via ...
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Writing on Emacs: Spell + Grammar + More checking? [duplicate]
There is something I never found how to manage correctly on Emacs: advance spell checking.
I know that a lot of modes allow spell check (flyspell, hunspell...) but what I really wonder is: is it ...
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Flyspell breaks on special characters
Problematic Behavior
Special characters appear to split words in flyspell even if the words are in my dictionary:
How can I fix this?
Flyspell Configuration Details
I am using the ispell backend ...
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Show current ispell dictionary in modeline
FlyCheck had dynamic modeline that shows real-time errors information: FlyC:0/21
How to have the similar ability for flyspell, to show the current dictionary used in the current buffer, the info ...
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flyspell does not start form the first try
I used flyspell-mode with aspell backend before, but now I want to make the transition to the hunspell so that I could use multiple dictionaries.
To do so, I added the following lines to the init.el:
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How to set the local dictionary in a *Org Note* buffer?
I am using different flyspell/ispell dictionaries for different buffers/files setting the file local variable ispell-local-dictionary, respectively.
But if I want to log e.g. a TODO state change a *...
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Error enabling flyspell mode in Emacs
I use flyspell hunspell for checking my spelling mistakes in Emacs. Recently, when I run M-x flyspell-mode in .org or .tex files I got the following error:
Error enabling Flyspell mode:
(hunspell ...
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Can I have a different dictionary for flyspell in different headings?
I have an org-mode file where I use different languages. I was hoping to be able to have flyspell checking them. Something like:
* Title 1
:PROPERTIES:
:Language: Italian
:END:
This is italian text ...
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mmm-mode and flyspell
I use mmm-mode in order to add python code in LaTeX. So i have something like this in my emacs config:
(use-package mmm-mode
:ensure t
:config
(mmm-add-group 'latex-python
'((latex-...
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Error when using spell-checker in Portuguese
I wrote a text file in Portuguese. I have changed my dictionary to portugues. I tried to spell-check buffer and I get the following error message:
Starting new Ispell process aspell with portugues ...
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Problem with flyspell in Emacs 26
After upgrading to Emacs 26, I have been having a problem when flyspell checks a document in Spanish. More precisely, flyspell doesn’t recognize accents and erroneously considers accented words like “...
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How can i set flyspell to Italian
still have some problem to configure emacs:
I use orgmode to write principally in italian, but also in english. So i want to use flyspell to check either language. I google and i find this blog. ...
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flyspell overrides company key bindings
I have the following in my init file.
;; ======= Company mode set up ============
(use-package company
:ensure t
:defer t
:init (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'global-company-mode)
:config
(use-...
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aspell with emacs 26.1 on ms windows
After updating emacs to version 26.1 on a windows machine, I get the following error message from flyspell:
Error enabling Flyspell mode:
(c:/Program Files (x86)/Aspell/bin/aspell.exe release 0.60 or ...
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AUCTeX's TeX-complete-symbol with flyspell
I'm trying to make use of the autocomplete facilities of AUCTeX using M-TAB (actually, through the equivalent binding C-M-i), but apparently, when using flyspell-mode alongside with LaTeX-mode the ...
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