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Interactive spell-checking program for Unix

International Ispell is an interactive spell-checking program for Unix which supports a large number of European languages. An emacs interface is available as well as the standard command-line mode.

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How to define two ispell dictionaries in Emacs for LaTeX mode?

I have a document with many quotations in a second language. How can I define this second language to Ispell? I have this in file top: %% Local IspellDict: brasileiro I tried this, but it didn't work: %% Local IspellDict: brasileiro, english
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How to ignore comments in the LaTeX file with ispell (within Emacs if possible)

I'm writing a text with Latex in English but written my comments in Finnish. When I'm running the spell checking with ispell, I got to run through all the comments. Is there a handy way to skip the comments with the ispell? If that could be done…
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Emacs abbrev-mode in natural languages

I frequently use abbrev-mode in Emacs when writing prose or just taking notes. It would be nice if there was any way to define language-specific abbreviations, e.g. if I write "proj" in an English text, it would expand to "project", whereas if I…
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emacs ispell breaks on latex quotation marks

My emacs "ispell" command, which runs hunspell, breaks when it hits quoted sections in my emacs latex buffer (I am using AucTEX). With my previous emacs/Linux distro it didn't have this problem. Example: as you like to say, vbfs ``You won't know…
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Emacs ispell goto previous word?

As I'm using M-x ispell to check LaTeX code I use SPC to skip a lot of entries that should not be corrected. But then I sometimes skip an actual misspelled word. What's the key to go back with ispell to previous word?
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Emacs ispell error when accepting words for local file dictionary

In every .tex file, when I type A (shift a) to accept a new word, I get the error message Wrong type argument: sequencep, 1 in the minibuffer or in the message buffer: ispell-add-per-file-word-list: Wrong type argument: sequencep, 1 If I add, at…
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Where to find Ukrainian 'ispell', 'aspell', 'snowball' dictionary for adding it to full-text search in Postgres?

After parsing many documents, I have a lot of rows/columns with Ukrainian text that should be indexed for full-text search in Postgres. I've found that Postgres 14 supports by default 29 languages, but unfortunately not the Ukrainian one. After…
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Force flyspell to go to the end of the word when autocorrecting word in Emacs

I have found it annoying that flyspell seems to stay in the middle of the word when you do flyspell-auto-correct-word command. Can this be changed to force it to go to the end of the word after running the command? It might be as simple as setting a…
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Use aspell in emacs for editing HTML pages

I am using the ispell-buffer command in emacs (with aspell as the backend spell checker) to check for typos in the content of HTML pages, but aspell complains at every HTML tag. Is there any way to configure it to ignore HTML tags? Thanks in…
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How to enable Norwegian spelling check in emacs?

I want to run ispell for Norwegian and possibly other languages in emacs (Ubuntu 14.04). I've installed the aspell-no package, do a ispell-change-dictionary, set it to no, upon which it says "using norsk dictionary", then I run ispell. This leads…
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Is there a way to make emacs ispell/aspell ignore shoft hyphens in HTML?

I write mostly my documentation in HTML using emacs as my main editor. Emacs let you interactively spell-check the current buffer with the command ispell-buffer. (I think the underlying program used for doing the spell-check is named aspell.) When…
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how import ispell dictionary into hunspell?

I downloaded the dictionary : american-huge for ispell, and I'm trying to extract the words list from it. I tough of importing it into aspell and use aspell to dump it, but I want't able to :( I read that hunspell I could use hunspell in my…
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Emacs on Win32 with hunspell - personal dictionary does not get saved

So I have a working setup for Emacs (v23.3.1) on Windows 7 using hunspell after following the instructions in the wiki. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell When I spell check a document (M-x ispell), emacs gives me the options to insert…
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Bulk spell checking for C code

I have a large source code package in C and I would like to spell check all string literals and comments. After adding exceptions to a file, I would like to perform the same procedure on each release, to see if there are any spelling errors…
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Emacs spell checking with hunspell: no spell-checking done

I would like to activate spell checking within GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (on Mac OS X 11.10). I did the following: 1) brew install hunspell 2) cd ~/Library/Spelling wget http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/en_US.aff wget…
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