Questions tagged [ispell]
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Flyspell (prog mode) add accepted words by underlying prog-mode
Is there a way to add a list of "accepted" words for each underlying prog-mode. By "accepted" I mean - I don't want them added to my dictionary - I just don't want them highlighted....
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Modify spell-fu to exclude words starting with a capital letter that are not at the start of a sentence
I am using Doom Emacs with the spell-fu package for spellchecking. I would like to modify spell-fu to ignore words that start with a capital letter and are not at the start of a sentence. For example, ...
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how to move ispell correction suggestion window
When running ispell-buffer, as I scroll down the document, the misspelled word is highlighted at the bottom of the window, but the correction suggestion window appears at the top of the document. Is ...
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ispell on macOS shows limited spelling options
I use Emacs both on Linux Mint and macOS. I use iSpell on both. On Linux, when I check the region, I have around 20 options for a misspelled word; on macOS, the same word will only display 2 or 3 ...
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ispell-init-process: Error: The encoding "nil" is not known
ispell-init-process fails When I try to correct a word with ispell, I got the following error: ispell-init-process: Error: The encoding "nil" is not known. This could also mean that the file ...
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Ispell does not seem to use hunspell
I tried to set up ispell to use hunspell with this post. but it seems like ispell is still not using hunspell. Ispell in Emacs would mark this word as wrong: Schulwochen (German) $ hunspell -d de_DE ...
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Where is personal dictionary for ispell?
In this page I read that “the personal word list is normally a file called .ispell_english or .ispell_words in your home directory." But I don’t have that file. Is this Unix specific? I’m on a ...
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Why does ispell generates a process?
After fixing ispell to work on a new machine running macOS (see previous question), I was surprised to see it listed as one of my processes, see the image: As text: Process. PID. Status. Buffer. ...