dzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) (11/05/87)
We just recently installed GNU on our SUNs, and WOW! Nice stuff! Beats the hell out of Unipress & CCA EMACS (and even compares favorably with ZMACS!). While browsing through comp.emacs, I found & snarfed the ISPELL interface stuff, but I can't get it to work. Perhaps there's someone out there who can help. Here's what I did: 1. Stripped Headers & trailers 2. M-x byte-compile-buffer 3. Loaded the ispell.elc file (M-x load-file) 4. Ran ISPELL on a buffer with M-x ispell-buffer What happened was some prefrobnication, followed by the message "Process ispell not running" in the mini-buffer. Now I DO have ispell, so I can't figure out what the problem is. Any suggestions? Thanx -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Roberts dzzr@lanl.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------
craig@ncrcpx.UUCP (R. Craig Peterson) (11/06/87)
I posted a request in sources.wanted a few days ago trying to get a copy of ispell. Maybe someone here has the code, and could forward it to me.... Please??? Thanks. -- R. Craig Peterson "Next time someone asks you if you're a god ncrlnk!ncrcam!ncrcpx!craig say YES!!" N8INO Ghost Busters E Pluribus Unum (NSA stuff - terrorist, DES, cipher, secret, NRO, CIA)
hwang@uicsgva.UUCP (11/11/87)
I ran into the same problem as noted in the base note. I looked into to the ispell.el code and found that it used "-A" as an option passing to ispell which should be "-a" for the version of ispell that we have. So I change that and the message is gone. However, when running ispell-buffer, the process seems to run into some infinite loop after it corrects the first spelling error !. Now I use ispell with the interactive spell.el (By Bengt Martensson) for its option "(i)spell", to give me suggestions on the possible spellings. This part works out fine. Also ispell-word is working perfectly of its own.
ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA (Ashwin Ram) (11/17/87)
You have an old version of ispell. Check its version as follows:
% ispell -v
@(#) Ispell Version 2.0.01, May 1987 Beta posting
The ispell.el file I posted is designed to work with this version. The old
ispell didn't recognize the -A flag (which is NOT the same as the -a flag; -A
allows you to include files using &Include_File&). Also, I think it didn't
have the -p flag (allows you to specify a personal dictionary).
-- Ashwin Ram --
ARPA: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu
UUCP: {decvax,linus,seismo}!yale!Ram-Ashwin
BITNET: Ram@yalecsdzzr@beta.UUCP (Douglas J Roberts) (11/18/87)
Thanks to those who responded to my request for help. Special thanks to Ashwin Ram for sending me the new ispell.shar and dictionary files. --Doug -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Roberts dzzr@lanl.gov ---------------------------------------------------------------