Re: Help: ISPELL and Aqua EMACS (OSX)

[Edward Dodge]

Hans-Peter Binder <tethys.pb@gmx.net> writes:

> Edward Dodge <someone@g3.com> wrote:
> 
> > THE PROBLEM:
> > 
> > Aqua EMACS doesn't seem to source the whole PATH variable, because it
> > can't seem to find my ispell program.  In fact, I get an error when I
> > source my .emacs at startup because it can't find ispell.  Terminal
> > emacs ("% emacs -nw") doesn't have this problem and I can use ispell
> > without any issues.
> 
> I have this in my .emacs:
> 
>       (setq ispell-program-name "/usr/bin/ispell") 
> 
> HTH

Thanks Hans,

And thanks to everyone else in the thread.  This has been most
educational and I am inspired to learn more about elisp!

I think for now I will just put Hans' code in my system-dependent
section of my EMACS file:

(when (eq system-type 'darwin)
  (setq ispell-program-name "/usr/local/bin/ispell")
  (set-frame-font "fontset-mac")
  (set-keyboard-coding-system 'mac-roman-unix)
  (set-frame-font "-etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-140-iso8859-1")
  (modify-frame-parameters (selected-frame) '((font .
  "-*-Monaco-*-140-*"))))

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If I run into any other problems,  I'll probably have to go with
something more along the lines of launching EMACS through a shell
script.

Edward