Re: [osol-discuss] Spell checking for Emacs?
First, how to set up aspell. Get it from [url=http://aspell.net/]its Web
site[/url]. Compile and install with
./configure --disable-curses
gmake
pfexec gmake install
You need to add at least one dictionary for aspell. You can get them from the
aspell Web site and install them by following the directions in the README file
(the usual configure/make/make install). Make sure that /usr/local/bin is in
your PATH. Add the following to your .emacs file:
(setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
And that's it. Spell checking works the way it does under Emacs with any recent
Linux distro I've tried (not that I've done a lot of testing).
Now, here's how I set up Hunspell. Download it from
[url=http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/]SourceForge[/url]. Compilation and
installation works in the usual way (using gmake instead of make). To make it
use the Myspell/Hunspell dictionaries that are supplied as IPS packages, add
the following to your .bashrc:
export DICPATH=/usr/lib/firefox/dictionaries
export DICTIONARY=en-US
Hunspell now works from the command line. Here's a sample session:
u...@diotima:~$ hunspell
Hunspell 1.2.8
cet
& cet 15 0: vet, cwt, ct, et, cent, cert, etc, set, cit, cat, net, cot, let,
cut, get
To set up Emacs for use of Hunspell, I put the following in my .emacs file:
(eval-after-load "ispell"
(progn
(setq ispell-dictionary "en-US"
ispell-extra-args '("-i" "utf-8") ; aspell doesn't understand -i
utf-8, hunspell needs it
ispell-silently-savep t)))
(setq-default ispell-program-name "hunspell")
I got the template for this from
[url=http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell]the Emacs Wiki[/url]. (I
removed "-a" from ispell-extra-args since it doesn't make any difference, and
since ispell.el seems to pass it to Hunspell already, without its inclusion in
ispell-extra-args.)
If you try to spell check a word by using "M-x ispell-word", you get the error
message "ispell-get-word: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil". "M-x
ispell-buffer" produces
Spell checking test-buffer using hunspell with en-US dictionary...
Spell-checking using hunspell with en-US dictionary done
ispell-get-line: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
>From what I can tell by Googling, you run into the same problem if you try to
>use Emacs with Hunspell under Linux. Hunspell and/or ispell.el need to be
>changed to work with each other correctly.
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Re: [osol-discuss] Spell checking for Emacs?
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Alex Viskovatoff wrote: > Well, I've had to sort this out on my own. It turns out that it's relatively > easy to get spell checking working under Emacs with aspell. That's what the > two Linux distros I have, OpenSUSE and Fedora, use for Emacs. Since they both > come with Hunspell, I guess the packagers of those distros couldn't get > Hunspell working under Emacs any better than I could. (It does compile under > OpenSolaris without any problems, and works from the command line. The > problem is that it doesn't work with the Emacs ispell mode.) > > GNU aspell didn't compile for me with ncurses, so I used "./configure > --disable-curses". You don't need ncurses to be enabled in aspell anyway, if > you're only going to use it in Emacs. Mind sharing what prevented you from using Hunspell in Emac's ispell mode? If you could share your recipe for success for the aspell route, that'd be appreciated, too, I'm sure. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Spell checking for Emacs?
Well, I've had to sort this out on my own. It turns out that it's relatively easy to get spell checking working under Emacs with aspell. That's what the two Linux distros I have, OpenSUSE and Fedora, use for Emacs. Since they both come with Hunspell, I guess the packagers of those distros couldn't get Hunspell working under Emacs any better than I could. (It does compile under OpenSolaris without any problems, and works from the command line. The problem is that it doesn't work with the Emacs ispell mode.) GNU aspell didn't compile for me with ncurses, so I used "./configure --disable-curses". You don't need ncurses to be enabled in aspell anyway, if you're only going to use it in Emacs. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Spell checking for Emacs?
[I'm reposting this from the desktop-discuss forum, since although it's gotten 54 views there, it has gotten no replies.] When I try to spell-check in Emacs, I get the following message: > Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell Emacs under Fedora Linux uses aspell. Googling, I came up with this: > SUNWaspell and SUNWaspell-en have been obsolete. On Solaris, we now use > Enchant and myspell. And indeed, there are OpenSolaris packages with "Myspell and Hunspell spell dictionary files". But there are no packages that contain the myspell or hunspell program itself. Spell checking works in Firefox. The Wikipedia page for Hunspell states that Firefox (version 3) uses Hunspell. It also states that Emacs supports Hunspell. I've found a thread which indicates that Firefox contains Hunspell internally: http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2009/026/mail This thread suggests that a Hunspell package is in the works. Is that the case? And how can I get spell checking under Emacs to work until that package is released? Should I compile Hunspell myself? Finally: Has anyone using OpenSolaris 2009.06 gotten spell checking to work under Emacs, by any means? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
