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Is there any good alternative to ASpell? It's nice open source, but haven't been updated for a while. The performance is not too good and I am having trouble creating a custom worklist with non-alpha characters.

Imran
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  • And according to an excellent article at https://alexwlchan.net/2016/09/please-use-aspell/, the --personal flag is broken, which matches my own experience. This precludes sharing a dictionary via a repository. – Flash Sheridan Jul 17 '18 at 14:19

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Hunspell. It's what Firefox uses for its spellchecker.

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  • It‘s not obvious, but links to the needed dictionaries (for ~/Library/Spelling/ on MacOS) are at, e.g., https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/en_US.dic & https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/en_US.aff – Flash Sheridan Jul 17 '18 at 15:21
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Check out Hunspell.

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There is also Ispell, might not be faster or better maintained, but it supports international characters. I don't know how it compares to Hunspell.

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I switched to aspell for emacs flyspell program, but it kept freezing my pc and I switched back to ispell.

(setq-default ispell-program-name "ispell")

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