Re: Auto-spell-checking buffers when I close emacs

[Kelly Jones]

On 2/9/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu> wrote:
> Kelly Jones wrote:
> > Is there any way I can get emacs to auto-spell-check all buffers when
> > I hit ctrl-x ctrl-c, and only exit if either 1) everything is spelled
> > correctly, or 2) I complete (or abort) the spellcheck process?
> >
>
> Here's a start I just cooked up.  Add it to your .emacs file.  It will
> spell-check quite literally every buffer (including internal buffers
> like *Messages* and Completions.  I'm new to emacs and don't know a way
> around that yet.  aspell needs to be installed.:
>
> ;Spell check
> (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
>
> (defun spell-given-buffer (buffer)
> "Spell-check a given buffer"
> (set-buffer buffer)
> (ispell-buffer))
>
> (defun spell-all-buffers ()
> "Spell-checks all buffers"
> (interactive)
> (mapcar 'spell-given-buffer (buffer-list)))
>
> (add-to-list 'kill-emacs-query-functions 'spell-all-buffers)

Thanks, Matthew. I feel really bad, because, after reading your post, I added:

(add-to-list 'kill-emacs-query-functions 'ispell-buffer)

to ~/.emacs, and that does exactly what I want. The only part I was
missing (until I read your post) was "kill-emacs-query-functions".

I overstated my request: I sometimes use emacs to edit wiki pages and
want emacs to remind me if I try to save w/o spellchecking.

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