Re: emacs's spell check feature problems (criticism)

[jpkotta]

On May 27, 8:16 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 25, 3:52 pm, Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> «
> Some criticism about emacs spell checking feature.
>
> • Emacs Spell Checker Problems
>   http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_spell_checker_problems.html
> »
>
> On May 27, 10:46 am, jpkotta <jpko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The error is because speck-hunspell-default-dictionary-name is nil.
> > If I set speck-hunspell-library-directory to the directory where my
> > hunspell dictionaries are (which is /usr/share/myspell/dicts on my
> > system), I can enable the mode with no errors.
>
> thanks. That will help.
>
> > I still can't seem to
> > make it do anything useful, though.
>
> you mean it doesn't do spell check for you? or do you mean you prefer
> flyspell-mode than speck-mode??
>

I have some of the same complaints about flyspell, so I want to see if
I like speck-mode better.

I can't get speck-mode to spell check for me.  I had some deliberately
misspelled words, and ran speck-region and speck-line so that it
should have found them.  speck-line complained about no "speck
process", so maybe I still have more stuff to set up.  It also didn't
find anything when I initially turned on speck-mode.  I haven't put
much effort in, though.