Re: ispell and emacs

[Sergei Pokrovsky]

>>>>> "AN" == Alexander Nikolov <alexander@ip217-30.mnet.bg> writes:

  AN> I installed a Bulgarian dictionary for ispell and tried to make it
  AN> work under emacs too, but it is acting somewhat strange. What I added
  AN> in my .emacs file was:
  AN> ;;ispell Bulgarian
  AN> (load-library "ispell")
  AN> (setq ispell-dictionary-alist 
  AN>       (cons 
  AN>         '("bulgarian"
  AN>           "[A-Za-z\192-\255]" "[^A-Za-z\192-\255]"

Why do you send Latin letters to a Bulgarian dictionary?  If you remove
the "A-Za-z" part, your spellcheck should work faster and better
(unless you have an integrated Bulgarian-English dictionary).
Besides, "192" seems to be a strange octal number, I'd expect

           "[\300-\377]" "[^\300-\377]"

[...]

  AN> Sometimes it seems to work nice and sometimes it doesn't(which is the
  AN> more frequent case). If I don't put a string of latin letters in the
  AN> beginning of the buffer, ispell reports that the spell-check is
  AN> finished (without reporting errors), no matter what terrible mistakes
  AN> I've made.

So your ispell is not checking Bulgarian, it checks English.  Did you
set the Bulgarian dictionary?  Something like

(ispell-change-dictionary "bulgarian")

You may wish to define some shortcuts, e.g.

(global-set-key "\C-cia"
                (lambda () "set English dictionary"
                  (interactive)
                  (ispell-change-dictionary "english")
                  (setq diction-ruleset "en")
))
(global-set-key "\C-cip"
                (lambda () "set Russian dictionary"
                  (interactive)
                  (ispell-change-dictionary "russian")
))

(global-set-key "\C-cib" 'ispell-buffer)
(global-set-key "\C-cic" 'ispell-change-dictionary)
(global-set-key "\C-cim" 'ispell-message)
(global-set-key "\C-cir" 'ispell-region)
(global-set-key "\C-ciw" 'ispell-complete-word)



-- 
Sergei