Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries

[Sascha Wilde]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> wrote:

>> Anyway, regarding the issue of hunspell: there is already a
>> ispell/aspell like command line interface included with hunspell
[...]
>> I'm quite confident that it will not take too much afford to
>> integrate it with Emacs
[...]
>
> Could you have a slightly longer look at this and tell us how it could
> be used?  I didn't find anything about this at their site.

Ok, I did some bold experimenting and simply made an ad hoc setup for
ispell like this:

(setq ispell-program-name "hunspell"
      ispell-local-dictionary "en_US"
      ispell-local-dictionary-alist '(("en_US" "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]"
      "[']" nil nil nil iso-8859-1)))

then M-x ispell-buffer used hunspell as back end and worked as expected!
(Even a quick attempt to use flyspell succeeded.)

Very promising IMO.  It seems that basically the dictionary setup must
be implemented for hunspell to work as back end for Emacs.

I guess there are a bunch of additional harry details which will need
fixing, but in general it seems that hunspell actually can be used as a
drop-in replacement for ispell with Emacs.

cheers
sascha
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