[OS X Emacs] Re: How to make spelling correction work with French?
Marc Shapiro -- at work
marc.shapiro at acm.org
Fri Apr 9 17:01:21 EDT 2010
John,
Thanks for the response but I would rather get some actual help...
Out of curiosity I added the directory containing aspell's french dictionary to Emacs's search path. No difference, same error message.
Marc
> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 16:55:26 +0100
> From: John Mark Swafford <johnmarksuave at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X Emacs] How to make spelling correction work with
> French?
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> It sounds like you just need to add the path to your French libraries to the
> Emacs path. You can do this a couple ways, so I'll leave it to you to figure
> out which one will be the most appropriate for you.
>
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Marc Shapiro -- at work <
> marc.shapiro at acm.org> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to make spelling correction for languages other than
>> English work in Emacs on the Mac?
>>
>> I am using Carbon Emacs sur MacOS "GNU Emacs 22.3.1
>> (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) of 2009-07-26 on
>> gs674-seijiz.local". I do my spelling correction using flyspell-mode.
>>
>> There is an interactive function for changing languages, and it offers
>> French as one of its options:
>> (ispell-change-dictionary "francais" nil)
>> but this brings up an error:
>> Error in post-command-hook: (error Error: The file
>> "/LOCAL/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lib/aspell-i386/francais"
>> can not be opened for reading.)
>>
>> Indeed this file does not exist. At this location there are various files
>> for English.
>>
>> /sw/aspell running as an independent program has support for French.
>>
>> I looked around the web. I found French dictionaries and instructions about
>> adding a dictionary to aspell, but nothing that seemed relevant to Emacs on
>> the Mac.
>>
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> From: David Reitter <david.reitter at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [OS X Emacs] Re: problem C-x C-f 'ing a file in two
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> On Apr 9, 2010, at 2:53 AM, xioni wrote:
>> however, recently it changed and instead C-x C-f brings into focus the file in the previous frame rather than opening it in the new frame.
>
> Can you determine when it changed, i.e. between which Aquamacs versions exactly?
>
>>
>> my work computer still is on aquamacs 1.5 and the desired behavior still exists there.
>
> Aquamacs 1.5 came out a long time ago, with thousands of little changes in the meantime.
>
>> so, i just spent a few minutes toying around with custom-set-variables in customizations.el and the behavior i desire seems to be given by the following
>>
>> '(aquamacs-customization-version-id 100 t)
>
> No, that is just an internal variable so Aquamacs can tell which version of Aquamacs wrote the customizations file. Of course, a range of internal things depend on this so that users upgrading to newer versions do not have to change too many settings.
>
> Try turning off tabbar-mode (Options menu).
> This may give you the desired behavior - at least it does so for me.
>
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> Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 18:56:30 +0200
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE>
> Subject: Re: [OS X Emacs] How to make spelling correction work with
> French?
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> Am 09.04.2010 um 16:36 schrieb Marc Shapiro -- at work:
>
>> There is an interactive function for changing languages, and it
>> offers French as one of its options:
>> (ispell-change-dictionary "francais" nil)
>> but this brings up an error:
>> Error in post-command-hook: (error Error: The file "/LOCAL/
>> Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lib/aspell-i386/francais"
>> can not be opened for reading.)
>
>
> The Japanese Carbon Emacs package allows to install additional
> packages from the internet. There might be one with French dictionaries.
>
> Another option is to customise the variable ispell-program-name (which
> is my way) to make it point to your Fink binary of *spell in /sw/bin,
> full pathname required. This should enable the use of your own
> dictionaries.
>
> A mix of different install directories of these dictionaries to be
> used by one of the spell programmes would make it necessary to change
> one or more variable settings. So changing the language would need a
> function and a hook to change them. You can look at the names of all
> relevant variables with:
>
> C-h v ispell- TAB TAB
>
> and take care of the volatile *Completions* buffer (actually its
> contents can change any moment: then when you try some other
> completion). From this buffer you can again invoke C-h v with the
> cursor (point) in these variable names.
>
> --
> Greetings
>
> Pete
>
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