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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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Postgres tsearch performance on first query

We are using a custom text search configuration for searching in german texts for a proper support of compound words. The dictionary can be found here: http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/postgres/gist/tsearch/V2/ (ispell-german-compound.tar.gz). The…
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how to get GNU Emacs spellcheck to find user's personal dictionary on OSX?

I switched from Aquamacs to GNU Emacs. Before, when Aquamacs thought a word was misspelled, I could right-click to "Learn Spelling." (I also had an option to Ignore Spelling to get it to unflag the word for that buffer only.) In GNU Emacs, I'm…
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List of words containing a string in a given language

Is there a way to use either ispell or aspell to generate a list of words that contain a given substring? For example, I would like to list all words in the English language that contain the string 'th'. Note that my question is not limited to…
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How to log spelling replacements in emacs?

I want to log to a file the ispell replacements that get made (whether manual r, or from a list 0...) Every time a "correction" is made, there are two words that are relevant: The word that ispell identifies as incorrect. The word that ends up in…
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How to spell check all files of a given type using emacs

Is it possible to spell check all files of a certain file type, e.g. all markdown files, in a directory and its subdirectories using Emacs? I am looking for an interactive solution.
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How to understand and avoid non-interactive mode errors when running ispell from script?

Background Ispell is a basic command line spelling program in linux, which I want to call for a previously collected list of file names. These file names are recursively collected from a latex root file for example. This is usefull when requiring to…
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How do I change ispell private dictionary

I would like to do spell check on several files in a big project/repository and use a different private dictionary than my own. Such that I instead use a project dictionary and can later upload this for other users to use.
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Installing Ispell on OSX

I downloaded the ispell tarball from a GNU mirror and am installing Ispell on my OSX. When I do "make all" in my folder, I am getting the following error: [pradeep@laptop ispell-3.1]$make all + cc -O -c buildhash.c In file included from…
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British LaTeX files with Emacs and Hunspell

I am using Hunspell with Emacs. In my init.el I set the dictionary list as follow: (setq ispell-local-dictionary-alist '( (nil "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "" nil ("-d" "en_US") nil utf-8) ("english" "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" ""…
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How to call a function in an elisp program, and follow the interactive path?

If I call ispell-check-version interactively (through M-x) it got this answer: @(#) International Ispell Version 3.3.02 12 Jun 2005, ispell.el 3.6 - 7-Jan-2003 Fine. Now let's say I want to call it from a program. I expect to get the same result.…
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Running Emacs ispell command doesn't ask confirmation to save to private dictionary

Everytime I run ispell-buffer and add things to the private dictionary. It asks me confirmation whether I want to save it or not at the end. Can I turn this off?? So it doesn't ask me the confirmation and just automatically saves it. Then on a side…
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how to extract all prefix words from an ispell .mwl file in bash

I have an ispell huge .mwl file and I want to remove all the ispell suffixes to generate a simple text-only words dictionnary using unix ispell, bash or perl commands. Is there ispell command options to do that? (in unix, the .mwl.gz files are…
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Where are the aspell libraries located on the server? How can I check for them?

I just switched to the cpanel servers with godaddy. I am completely integrated with pspell and it was working perfectly fine. now I get the following errors Warning: pspell_new(): PSPELL couldn't open the dictionary. reason: No word lists can be…
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How to get compiler-like messages from ispell or aspell

Spell checking on multiple text files. Having an output of the form as 'gcc' produces it: intro/main.txt:12: 'hierarchie' -- orthograph concepts/detail/experiment.txt:12: 'propper' -- orthograph is a good formal description…
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install danish dictionary in emacs on windows

I haven't been able to find the help I need on (on dummie level) for installing a new dictionary (danish) in emacs. To be honest I somewhat confused about ispell vs aspell. When typing "M-x ispell-buffer" a spelling control starts using english as…
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