OK, thank you but I have now chosen the much more appropriate plan for my intelligence level: If a word turns red in emacs, that is to protect me from common misspelling, and I can use look(1) to double check if it bothers me.
Thanks anyway for recording the more complex method in this bug for users that wish to go that route. By the way, according to your message apparently there is no need for me to have both ispell and aspell on my system. # apt-cache show aspell Aspell is designed to be a drop-in replacement for Ispell. So why not add a Conflicts:? # apt-get purge ispell The following packages will be REMOVED: iamerican* ibritish* ispell* spell* So then no more /usr/bin/spell, which I use often! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

