Re: emacs for winXP and spell checking??

[Colin S. Miller]

It's me FKtPp ;) wrote:
> Johs32 wrote:
> > I have installed emacs for winXP, but how do I enable some kind og spell 
> > checking?
> >
> > Johs 
>
> 1. Install aspell for w32. http://aspell.net/win32/
> 2. add aspell.exe's directory to your PATH variable.
> 3. add (setq ispell-program-name "aspell") to your .emacs
>
> Done

You might also want to set the dictionary to use by adding
(setq ispell-dictionary 'british)
to your .emacs

flyspell-mode and flyspell-prog-mode are handy
if you want background spell checking,

otherwise use M-x ispell-buffer, M-x  ispell-region, M-x ispell-word
to check the speling



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