Re: en word list for aspell under windows

[Xah Lee]

On Aug 6, 2:58 pm, sam jesse <rev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I am getting the following error when M-$ when the  point is at a word which
> I want to spell check.
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Error: No word lists can be found for
> the language \"en_US\".")
>   signal(error ("Error: No word lists can be found for the language
> \"en_US\"."))
>   error("%s" "Error: No word lists can be found for the language
> \"en_US\".")
>   ispell-init-process()
>   ispell-buffer-local-words()
>   ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs()
>   ispell-word(nil nil nil)
>   call-interactively(ispell-word)
>
> any idea how to install an en word list to window xp for my aspell to work?
>
> I downloaded aspell-en-0.51-1.tar.bz2 onto my windows XP but was not able to
> unzip it, so I installed bzip2-1.0.5-setup.exe in order to unzip it but was
> not able to use it. I really did not expect all this pain in order to get
> some words spell checked, so I need some comfort.
>
> thanks

you gotta do some homework yourself man.

read the aspell man page, easily found on the web.

if you are in unix or running win with cygwin, i could help you
more... but i'm not using aspell as windows native port, so i don't
know how that port's dictionary location etc works.

already helped you with 4 or so back and forth Q & As, and others have
too.

meanwhile, you probably should file a complaint to FSF, report this as
a bug.

spell checking is critical to a text editor. No reason to be this
hard, i don't blame you.

also, you don't seem to know unix or emacs much ... what about the
suggestion of getting the emacsW32 distro? You didn't seems to answer
that... but looking at your questions, how you gonna use emacs? cause
there'd be a lot issues down the road with using emacs if you needed
hand holding in every step in getting spell checking to work.

r u, like, too lazy, like me, and just want others to answer or debate
so you rip the info? LOL.

> so I need some comfort.

LOL. Me 2.

  Xah
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