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In Emacs, where is ispell's personal dictionary stored?
C-h v ispell-personal-dictionary
"File name of your personal spelling dictionary, or nil.
If nil, the default personal dictionary, (\"~/.ispell_DICTNAME\" for ispell or
\"~/.aspell.LANG.pws\" for ...
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Spell check with multiple dictionaries
Hunspell can spell check with multiple dictionaries, and you can configure this to work with Emacs. This is how I do it on OS X 10.11, with Emacs 25.0. It will not work with older Emacsen.
Install ...
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Where is ispell?
This isn't an Emacs problem. You need to have the ispell program installed on your machine. ispell is available on homebrew, so you can do:
$ brew install ispell
That's probably all you need. If ...
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call interactive function from elisp code without worrying about arguments
If you want to call an interactive function from within elisp, but
call it as if you invoked it interactively (e.g., via M-x some-command), you can wrap it in the call-interactively function.
The ...
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What is the relationship between Emacs and various spellcheckers (ispell, etc.)?
Quote from Emacs manual:
16.4 Checking and Correcting Spelling
This section describes the commands to check the spelling of a single
word or of a portion of a buffer. These commands only ...
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Automatically run ispell on magit COMMIT_MSG buffer
There is no need to hack anything - just add git-commit-turn-on-flyspell to git-commit-setup-hook. If you use the Custom interface to do so, then that is even one of the suggested functions for that ...
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how to install Aquamacs' OSX spellchecker (NSSpellChecker) in GNU Emacs?
The patches (referred to below) were created by @lawlist from select portions of the Aquamacs:
https://github.com/davidswelt/aquamacs-emacs
To enable native spellchecking on OSX in the vanilla/...
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The format of ispell personal dictionary
The error appears if you have an empty file or no file in place.
You need at least a header line in your dictionary file.
following the format
personal_ws-1.1 lang num [encoding]
like
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How to move back to a previous typo in ispell?
You can temporary exit from ispell (not kill it) just hitting arrow keys. Then you can edit as you like or move back before the previous typo. To resume ispell just type M-x ispell-continue. to re-...
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Spell check with multiple dictionaries
Suppose you already downloaded en_US-med.dic and en_US-med.aff and installed hunspell
Step 1, run hunspell -D in shell, which will tell the directory where hunspell searches for dictionaries, copy ...
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How to use an ispell dictionary in company mode?
You need provide a "plain word-list dictionary".
Step 1, Check the code of company-ispell, it actually calls ispell-lookup-words.
Step 2, check ispell-lookup-words documentation:
"Optional second ...
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Using company-ispell with large text dictionary?
It turns out the word list needs to be sorted (case insensitive), at least sorting it makes it work for me.
Assuming you use company mode and have a shortcut to activate it.
(use-package company
:...
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How can I replace all instances of a mispelled word during ispell?
If you switch on ispell-query-replace-choices by M-x customize-option ispell uses query-replace if it finds multiple occurrences of the miss-spelled word after you choose a replacement.
After the ...
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Marking as safe all possible lists of strings
C-hig (elisp)File Local Variables says:
You can specify safe values for a variable with a
‘safe-local-variable’ property. The property has to be a function of
one argument; any value is safe if the ...
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How to quiet "Starting new Ispell process" on opening every file?
You can temporarily disable message with the following advice for ispell-init-process.
That is a general approach which also works for other functions emitting unwanted messages.
(defun message-off-...
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Detect language in buffer
As for the first question, there is a package guess-language that you can use. See also this post by Manuel Uberti http://manuel-uberti.github.io/emacs/2017/02/04/guess-language/
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Can I instruct ispell to insert LocalWords in a different file?
You can use ispell-buffer-session-localwords for this purpose. In your .dir-locals.el, configure the variable for org-mode as follows:
((org-mode
(ispell-buffer-session-localwords
"my" "special"...
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Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US"
Package aspell comes with Debian 11, but evidently lacks dictionaries.
sudo apt-get install aspell-en
Installs the English spelling dictionary for aspell.
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Ispell + Hunspell recognizes everything after the apostrophe a different word
This can stem from using Unicode apostrophes (U+2019, ’) instead of ASCII single quotes ('), which certain Emacs major/minor modes might substitute automatically.
Have a look at http://www....
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flyspell and ispell give too many spelling suggestions
Emacs is invoking aspell as:
aspell -a -m -B --encoding=utf-8
-a is “pipe mode”. Given this information, I can reproduce the behavior in the terminal:
$ echo dbux | aspell -a -m -B --encoding=utf-8
@(...
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Changing language with ispell
When you run ispell, Emacs actually calls an external program that usually requires additional dictionaries to be installed separately. One such program you can use (which is well established and ...
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Pure elisp spell checking in Emacs
From the comments, Jordon Biondo has some proof-of-concept code at
https://gist.github.com/jordonbiondo
see in particular se-spell.el and elisp-checker.el.
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How to move back to a previous typo in ispell?
No, ispell just works in batch mode AFAICT.
I recommend using the built-in flyspell. This will give you on-the-fly feedback and provide commands like flyspell-check-next-higlighted-word and flyspell-...
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how to install Aquamacs' OSX spellchecker (NSSpellChecker) in GNU Emacs?
Building upon lawlist's answer, I've applied the necessary changes for Emacs 26 (as of 7th April 2018).
The patched source code can be found here: https://github.com/dangom/emacs/tree/ns-...
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Setting a new location for ispell/aspell dictionaries
Create and customize the aspell.conf in the ../etc directory of the root directory where aspell is installed. Inside the aspell.conf file, set the home-dir /desired/path/here. And, spelling ...
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Creating a macro to change dictionary and run ispell
Maybe something like this:
(defun change-dict-and-ispell ()
(interactive)
(ispell-change-dictionary "en_GB")
(ispell-message))
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c s e") 'change-dict-and-ispell)
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Ispell suggested word window too small
Customize the variable ispell-choices-win-default-height, which has a default value of 2. The doc-string states:
"The default size of the `*Choices*' window, including the mode line.
Must be greater ...
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Flyspell and Ispell find different incorrect words
Flyspell tries to respect Ispell as much as possible (e.g., ispell-program-name and ispell-dictionary), but does not use the functionalities exposed by Ispell to do the spell checking.
ispell-buffer ...
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Where is ispell private dictionary located on Spacemacs?
First, look at the variable ispell-personal-dictionary. If itʼs set, thatʼs your answer.
Next, look at the variable ispell-program-name. This is the spell-checking backend that Emacs is currently ...
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