Emacs Windows spellcheck - aspell or hunspell

windows emacs installation aspell hunspell
user90150 picture user90150 · Jan 6, 2010 · Viewed 10.8k times · Source

I use emacs 23.1.50 version on Windows XP operation system. I could not setup hunspell or aspell as part of emacs with the example provided by the emacs wiki. Anyone has working confiugration for windows xp and please help me out.

Answer

kjfletch picture kjfletch · Jan 6, 2010

I use aspell for spellchecking with emacs on Windows. Looking at my .emacs file I can see these configuration variables. 

(custom-set-variables
    '(ispell-dictionary "british")
    '(ispell-program-name "H:\\bin\\aspell\\bin\\aspell.exe"))

I installed aspell with the installation wizard. M-S-$ ispell-buffer flyspell-mode and the like all work correctly for me.

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