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Re: ispell/aspell on Mac 10.7: "Searching for program: No such file or d
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Marius Hofert |
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Re: ispell/aspell on Mac 10.7: "Searching for program: No such file or directory, aspell" |
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Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:30:07 +0200 |
Okay, just figured out, that aspell did not work in the emacs shell (only in
terminal.app). A restart cleared everything, so aspell is now found and I don't
even need the two setq-default commands :-)
Cheers,
Marius
On 2011-10-24, at 20:16 , Mario Lassnig wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 11-10-24 18:03 , Marius Hofert wrote:
>> Dear Mario,
>>
>> thanks a lot for your help.
>> I also thought that steps 5) to 7) are not necessary, but without manually
>> setting up flyspell.el, I obtained:
>> Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
>> Enabling Flyspell mode gave an error
>
> hmmm, i don't even have any load/require/anything in my init.el...
> it just works for me... (this guy here: http://emacsformacosx.com/)
>
>> Okay, I removed the flyspell folder (containing flyspell.el) and put in the
>> following in .emacs (as you suggested):
>> (setq-default ispell-program-name "/usr/local/bin/aspell")
>> (setq-default ispell-list-command "list")
>> Without the first command, I get the message "Enabling Flyspell mode gave an
>> error", so even if aspell belongs to PATH it is not found. Hmm...
>
> the osx environment is a bit messed up. it's a huge pita to do this
> correctly. the easiest way is just to put the full path to aspell in the
> ispell-program-name.
>
>>
>> I also put in the following in .emacs:
>> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode); enable flyspell mode for text-mode
>> (mapcar (lambda (mode-hook) (add-hook mode-hook 'flyspell-prog-mode))
>> '(c-mode-common-hook R-mode-hook emacs-lisp-mode-hook))
>> The second/third lines are to use flyspell-prog-mode for .c and .R files
>> (and emacs-lisp). However, this does not seem to have an impact when I
>> opened a .c file and put in wrong character sequences in the comments... How
>> does this work?
>
> i didn't even know that there's a flyspell-prog mode :-)
> i use it for latex only
>
> cheers,
> mario
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Marius
>
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