ispell/aspell on Mac 10.7: "Searching for program: No such file or directory, aspell"

[Marius Hofert]

Hi,

I'm working with Emacs 23.3 on Mac OS X 10.7.2. I would like to use aspell for 
spell checking, but I get an error. Here is what I tried so far and the 
corresponding results:

1) downloaded and installed aspell-0.60.6.1.tar.gz 
2) copied ./scripts/ispell and ./scripts/spell to /usr/local/bin [recommended 
in README]
3) downloaded and installed aspell6-en-7.1-0.tar.bz2 [English dictionary]
4) tested aspell in the terminal => works
5) downloaded 
http://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell.html 
6) put it in ~/.emacs.d/flyspell under the name "flyspell.el"
7) put in ~/.emacs:
(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/flyspell")
(autoload 'flyspell-mode "flyspell" "On-the-fly spelling checker." t)
(autoload 'flyspell-delay-command "flyspell" "Delay on command." t) 
(autoload 'tex-mode-flyspell-verify "flyspell" "" t) 
(setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")

If I open a .tex file and use M-x flyspell-mode, I obtain: "Searching for 
program: No such file or directory, aspell".
Without the last line in 7), I obtain "Searching for program: No such file or 
directory, ispell". Both ispell and aspell are working in the terminal, why not 
in emacs?

The buffer *Messages* says:
...
Applying style hooks... done
Loading /Users/mhofert/.emacs.d/flyspell/flyspell.el (source)...done
Local Ispell dictionary set to nil
Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
apply: Searching for program: No such file or directory, aspell


Cheers,

Marius