Questions tagged [hunspell]
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Flyspell and/or ispell + hunspell: Quirk for contraction words (shouldn't, isn't etc. getting flagged)
When setting up my spell-checking with flyspell and hunspell, contractions such as shouldn't and isn't are getting flagged:
I believe it's not (entirely) the dictionary's issue (en_GB) as when I type ...
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Ispell does not seem to use hunspell
I tried to set up ispell to use hunspell with this post.
but it seems like ispell is still not using hunspell.
Ispell in Emacs would mark this word as wrong: Schulwochen (German)
$ hunspell -d de_DE
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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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Why Emacs cannot find hunspell spanish dictionaries?
Here I am on a GNU/Linux machine.
I have installed hunspell 1.7.0-3 and hunspell-es_MX and a lot of the english dictionaries as well.
If I type
hunspell -D
I get, along others:
/usr/share/hunspell/...
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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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How to install spell-check in emacs 27.1?
I got a new laptop and installed new emacs (27.1) for windows 10. Now, I am back to the battle to get the spell check working in emacs. I am kicking myself for not saving the path to victory last time....
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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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Where is `personal dictionary` for `ispell` located?
C-h v ispell-personal-dictionary shows nil. Its docstring says:
Documentation:
File name of your personal spelling dictionary, or nil.
If nil, the default personal dictionary for your spelling ...
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ispell personal dictionary for multiple languages
I use hunspell for spellchecking. When I switch dictionaries (e.g., from en_US to hu_HU), I cannot save personal words to my personal dictionary. Emacs complains that
ispell-init-process: Error: ...
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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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Hunspell not working
I seem to be unable to configure hunspell to work within emacs. I have hunspell 1.7.0 and emacs 25.3. Supposedly, emacs should be able to find hunspell by default, but it seems that it is unable to ...
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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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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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Ispell not working with Hunspell
I am unable to use Ispell, after the upgrade to Hunspell 1.7.0.
It seems that the "-D" option does not return the loaded dictionary, therefore the function ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries fails. ...
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How to install multiple dictionaries in Emacs?
I am using Emacs 26.1 on MacOS 10.14.2. I am trying to use hunspell with 3 dictionaries that are installed in ~/Library/Spelling but when I start Emacs I got the following error: Wrong type argument: ...
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Greek typing & spell-checking with hunspell: encoding issue?
hunspell-checking Greek text I create in Emacs is not working.
Notes:
I am aware of this post: Spell check with multiple dictionaries
Eventually, I want to use ispell with hunspell in Emacs, which ...
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Emacs lisp throwing error when using spell check
I am trying to configure Hunspell in my emacs running in windows. When I type M-x ispell-buffer, I get the following error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
string-...
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flyspell & hunspell: 'flyspell-buffer' is not marking words ... sometimes
I try to get flyspell working with hunspell on Linux with German de_DE_frami dictionary from LibreOffice Extensions. The setup works ... more or less. (English dictionarys work perfectly fine.)
But ...
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Norwegian spell check
I'm trying to get Norwegian spell checking working in Emacs, and I'm having trouble with the Norwegian dictionary.
System
Ubuntu 17.04
GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24....
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Hunspell flyspell and Emacs on windows
I know this has been asked many times, but the answers don't seem to do it for me.
How do you get Flyspell to work with hunspell?
After installing the hunspell executables via mingw-64-hunspell ...
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Spell checking and hunspell on windows (preferably from scratch)
I really need to get spellchecker on emacs (there are few who don't), and hunspell seems like the best option. The other options (aspell and ispell) are said to be ancient and also require a fair ...
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ispell-phaf no matching entry for en_Gb after update to macOS Sierra
I have update to macOS Sierra after witch spelling in Emacs is broken.
The error I get is (ispell-phaf: No matching entry for en_GB in ´ispell-hunspell-dict-paths-alist´)
I have both install aspell ...
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How to speed up flyspell-mode?
When flyspell-mode is active, typing is somewhat – although barely noticeable
– more sluggish than without, also marking of words.
Is it possible to somehow speed up flyspell-mode, maybe make it not ...
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How to save speck-mode dictionary with file?
What I tried, putting at the end of a file:
Local IspellDict: de
As local variable: speck-dictionary: de
However, neither is interpreted. When I open the file in question, speck-mode
always uses en ...
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how to install Aquamacs' OSX spellchecker (NSSpellChecker) in GNU Emacs?
Spellcheck in Aquamacs works much better than either the default aspell or the improved hunspell.
Example typo: whtehr
Here are the suggestions provided by the various engines when I do flyspell-...
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Spell check with multiple dictionaries
How can I use multiple dictionaries with the Emacs spell checker? Specifically I want to use a British English dictionary and a medical English dictionary at the same time.
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Improving spell correction
I'm currently using Flyspell to auto-correct the previous word as I type, which is convenient. However, the spell-checker I use, Hunspell, makes some strange decisions.
For example, the misspelled ...
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Hunspell error in emacs
My .emacs file contains the following code to make hunspell work, however I get the following error message when starting flyspell-mode:
Starting new Ispell process hunspell with deutsch-hunspell ...
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How do I set up hunspell on a Windows PC?
I have my hunspell dictionaries at C:\hunspell\. It contains .dic and .aff files for three languages: en_GB, en_US, and nb_NO. The descriptions I find on the web about how to make hunspell work in ...
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how to add new UTF-8 words to Hunspell's user custom dictionary?
How do I set up Hunspell so that I can add new UTF-8 words (e.g. "Rúdi") to my user local dictionary?
I have a function that allows me to add new words to my local dictionary. It works for adding ...
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