[OS X Emacs] aquamacs - installing ispell/aspell

[Nathaniel Cunningham]

Ah, I have remembered now that the [variant] dictionaries are not complete
dictionaries -- they contain only variants of a subset of words from the
main English dictionaries.  (Hence they get treated slightly differently
from other English dictionaries in Aquamacs's version of ispell.el, in that
they aren't automatically selected as a default dictionary.)  See
http://people.inf.elte.hu/qzy/debian/imind/aspell/current/aspell-en-60.0-0/doc/extra.txt(near
the end of the page)

Next steps to take:
1) Please select a standalone dictionary in cocoAspell and we'll go from
there.  I have had no trouble with English (United States) [w_accents].  Try
selecting that one alone.
2) Re-start Aquamacs.
3) Use Help-->Diagnose and Report Bug-->Start Aquamacs Without
Customizations
4) in a buffer with text, M-x ispell

If this doesn't work, let's take this discussion off the list to sort things
out.  Check the value of ispell-dictionary-alist; if it's the same flood of
languages (the default ispell list, with no relation to what you actually
have installed!), that gives me a place to start.

--Nathaniel


On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:14 AM, sergio <sergio at village-buzz.com> wrote:

> Click on "below" or scroll down in the help window to see the actual value.
>>  Hopefully it has one default (nil) entry with associated settings, and one
>> for each of your chosen dictionaries, English [variant 1] and [variant 0].
>>
>>
> okay, this looks interesting..
>
> i hit below, and there is a FLOOD of languages entered..
>
> but no English [variant 1] or [variant 0].
>
>  Try changing dictionaries within Aquamacs -- use the Edit-->Spelling menu
>> or M-x ispell-change-dictionary, hit spacebar to see your options, and click
>> one of the non-default choices.  Then try spell-checking again.
>>
>>
> did this...
>
> got:
>
> ad-Orig-error: Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".
>
>  By the way, I believe your cocoAspell preferences will only be checked
>> when ispell is first started, so you will have to re-start Aquamacs (or M-x
>> unload-feature ispell) and re-start ispell if you want changes to be
>> registered.
>>
>>
> i have been restarting after each  time i goofed with it..
>
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