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Re: Using aspell in emacs
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Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: Using aspell in emacs |
Date: |
Tue, 15 Jun 2021 16:48:48 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
henri-biard wrote:
>
>>> Have been using ispell using ispell-word, ispell-region,
>>> and ispell-buffer, giving you options on replacements.
>
>> Okay, not following 100%?
>
> I described my experience of using ispell
You did?
>>> But how abaut using aspell intead?
>>
>> What advantages would that have, compared to ispell?
>
> aspell is supposed to be an improvement over ispell.
Examples?
> On the gnu website, it is stated that Gnu Aspell is a spell
> checker designed to replace Ispell.
Right, one spell-checker (which can do different things
depending on word, region, whole buffer etc) should be enough
IMO...
$ aptitude why aspell
i zenity Depends libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.15.1)
i A libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 Depends libenchant-2-2 (>= 2.2.3)
i A libenchant-2-2 Depends hunspell-en-us | hunspell-dictionary | myspel
l-dictionary | aspell-dictionary | ispell-dic
tionary
i A aspell-en Provides aspell-dictionary
i A aspell-en Depends aspell (>= 0.60.3-2)
$ aptitude why ispell
i iswedish Depends ispell (>= 3.3.02)
Hm, what does that mean? I installed zenity so got aspell?
What is zenity? "Zenity allows you to display GTK+ dialogs
from shell scripts" - why did I even install that?
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Re: Using aspell in emacs, Nick Dokos, 2021/06/16