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RE: [h-e-w] ispell and complete word


From: Randy W. Sims
Subject: RE: [h-e-w] ispell and complete word
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 19:20:06 -0400

> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden
> [mailto:address@hidden Behalf Of Dr Francis J.
> Wright
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 8:39 AM
> To: Chris Lott
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] ispell and complete word
>
>
> From: "Chris Lott" <address@hidden>
> To: <address@hidden>
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:35 AM
> Subject: [h-e-w] ispell and complete word
>
>
> > Does anyone have ispell working so that the complete word function is
> > available?
> >
> > I installed ispell from
> > ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/windows/emacs/contrib/ispell.zip
> > and it works fine for ispell-buffer
> >
> > But isell-complete-word gives me an error that "searching for program:
> there
> > is no such file or directory, egrep" although egrep is
> available from the
> > shell window:
> >
> > bash-2.05b$ egrep -V
> > egrep (GNU grep) 2.5
>
>
> On my system, egrep is an old-style symlink to grep, which bash can follow
> but NTEmacs can't.  One easy solution to that problem is to hard
> link (NTFS)
> or copy (FAT) grep.exe to egrep.exe.  However, word completion
> still doesn't
> work for me because it's looking for /usr/dict/words, which I don't appear
> to have.
>
> Probably the best solution is to change egrep to grep in the ispell
> customization buffer, and also set the correct path to your words
> file.  If,
> like me, you don't have a words file then I don't know off hand
> where to get
> one or how to build one.
>
> Francis
>

I believe you can find a word list at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org>,
but I don't rememeber exactly where it is.

Randy






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