Re: installing ispell by emacs on microsoft system

[weber]

On 18 jun, 08:09, Jason Rumney <jasonrum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 Jun, 11:19, David R <angel_ov_no...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > I load ispell.el via .emacs
> > whenever I try to use an ispell function it say in minibuffer "searching
> > for program : no such file or directory, ispell"
> > So I got the source  ispell-3.3.02
> > unpacked it
> > had to do chmod 755 pc/makeemx.bat
> > ran the .bat script which eli provided
> > what I got follows. Do I need to get emx?  where can I find the tarball?
> > should I try to get djgpp?
>
> The easiest option will be to install aspell, which is a newer spell
> checker that has maintained Windows ports available for it. You'll
> need to customize ispell-program to suit.

I'll second that. Just install aspell (no need to compile) and point
to the correct program with something like this (well it should be on
my path)

(setq ispell-program-name "C:/arquivos de programas/aspell/bin/
aspell")

HTH,
weber