Re: spell checking on MS Windows: myspell?

[Peter Tury]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu> writes:

> You can find a precompiled Windows binary of Ispell and many
> dictionaries here:
>
>    http://www.luziusschneider.com/Speller/English/

Thanks, it looks quite promising! I'll check it.

>> Another relted question: can myspell be used with Emacs smoothly? I
>> saw a project what made myspell and dictionaries especially good for
>> my language (Hungarian), so maybe I will need myspell.
>
> You probably mean Hunspell (a derfivative of myspell), not myspell.

Most probably you are right.

> The above URL includes a Hungarian dictionary.  If that is not good
> enough, I suggest to try aspell, as someone else suggested.
>
>> couldn't found myspell.el. Will ispell.el work with it?
>
> No, I don't think ispell.el will work with myspell without some
> tinkering.

:-(

I afraid they made hunspell because neither (i|a|my)spell was good
enough for special Hungarian needs -- AND it was easier to make some
special than enhancing the general tool :-((