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24.5; ispell.el problem

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From: Rostyslav Skrypnyk <rostyslav.skrypnyk <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; ispell.el problem
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 22:29:31 +0200

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Greetings!

When I type 'M-x ispell-buffer RETURN' I get the following output:
"Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell".

I tried to google my way out of it, but did not find anything
helpfull. I tried to reinstall 'ispell.el' by searching where it belongs
with 'M-x locate-library RETURN ispell', and getting "Library is file
/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/ispell.elc". I
downloaded a new 'ispell.el' from
//kdstevens.com/~stevens/ispell-page.html#download , placed it together
with existing .elc and recompiled directory with
'(byte-recompile-directory
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/")'. It did
not do the trick.

Could you please help me out?

With best regards,

Rostyslav.



In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21)
of 2015-04-10 on builder10-9.porkrind.org
Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1347
Configured using:
`configure --with-ns '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
Support/Emacs/${version}/site-lisp:/Library/Application
Support/Emacs/site-lisp''

Important settings:
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Message #8 received at 21021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free <at> gmail.com>
To: Rostyslav Skrypnyk <rostyslav.skrypnyk <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21021: 24.5; ispell.el problem
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 06:52:32 +0800

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 4:29 AM, Rostyslav Skrypnyk
<rostyslav.skrypnyk <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings!

Hi,

> When I type 'M-x ispell-buffer RETURN' I get the following output:
> "Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell".

Do you have Aspell, Ispell or Hunspell installed on your system?  If so,
you can try adding this to your init file:

    (setq ispell-program-name "/path/to/ispell")

If not, you can try installing Aspell with Homebrew:

    $ brew install aspell --with-all-langs

Message #11 received at 21021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Rostyslav Skrypnyk <rostyslav.skrypnyk <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21021 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21021: 24.5; ispell.el problem
Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 14:04:55 -0400

Rostyslav Skrypnyk wrote:

> When I type 'M-x ispell-buffer RETURN' I get the following output:
> "Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell".

Emacs does not come with a spell-checker.
ispell.el provides an _interface_ to one of several possible external
spell checkers.
You need to install one of those and make sure ispell.el can see it.
Ask on help-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org if you have trouble getting it working.

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