Flyspell enables on-the-fly spell checking in Emacs by the means of a minor mode (called Flyspell).
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in Emacs flyspell-mode, how to add new word to dictionary?
In Aquamacs in flyspell-mode, when flyspell flags a word as misspelled, I can right-click to add the word to my dictionary if it is in fact correctly spelled.
In GNU Emacs on OSX, when flyspell-mode highlights a word it thinks is misspelled, how can…
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emacs on mac os x, how to get spell check to work
I'm moving from Windows to Mac, and I've spent the whole night trying to get emacs to work.
I've installed GNU emacs and simply copied over my Windows .emacs file, which seems to work ok, except for spell check. I installed cocoAspell and followed…
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Emacs cannot find flyspell/ispell
On my Mac (Snow Leopard, 10.6.8), I'm using a modified version of Emacs 24.2 provided here to utilize Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) from the downloads page. Emacs works, but I haven't yet been able to get a spell checker to work.
To rectify this,…
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How to enable flyspell-mode in emacs for all files and all major modes?
How do you enable flyspell-mode to be automatically used for every file and every major mode as soon as Emacs is started?
Also, is there an XML dictionary that does not mark XML tags as misspelled words?
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How to remove an entry from ispell private dictionary?
I was wondering how could I remove one (wrongly inserted) entry/word from the ispell private-dictionary.
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after more digging i am still unable to delete entries from default dictionary, but I think the solution could be around buildhash program.…
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Have flyspell mark all misspelled words even those not written during the current session
When I active flyspell, M-x flyspell-mode, it marks misspelled words as I write them but it does not mark any misspelled words in the buffer that I have not written during current session. How can I make it so that flyspell also marks misspelled…
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emacs 23.4 mouse-2 behaviour on OS-X 10.7
how to map mouse-2 (middle button click) to (cmd + click) or (ctrl+click) on OS X using trackpad so as to display a popup menu under flyspell-mode.
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How to make flyspell bypass some words by context?
I use Emacs for writing most of my writings. I write using reStructuredText, and then transform them to LaTeX after some preprocessing since I write my citations á-la LaTeX. This is an excerpt of one of my texts (in Spanish):
En…
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Can't find out how to solve flyspell checker to work
I'm in trouble to make flyspell to work in emacs. I'm a Mac user, but I'm not using Aquamacs, which seems to provide this facility by default.
Starting new Ispell process [/usr/local/bin/aspell::default] ...
ispell-init-process: Error: No word lists…
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Enabling flyspell mode on emacs/w32?
I need to install/run flyspell mode on emacs/w32.
I installed ispell for windows from this site, and then I followed the procedure written in here.
I downloaded the flyspell-1.7a.el to rename it as flyspell.el, and copied it to the load-path…
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how do I disable Flyspell?
It sounds easy but I can't fix it: I want to permanently disable automatic spell-checking in emacs. There must be a simple line for my init.el. Can somebody help me?
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flyspell doesn't load with LaTeX file in emacs
Following this web page, I have edited my ~/.emacs file and added the line:
(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
However, flyspell doesn't start with LaTeX files. Why is that so?
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flyspell-mode disables Greek accents
When flyspell-mode is enabled and I try to write in Greek, I get an error most of the times I try to type an accent above some character:
<268632064> is undefined
The normal sequence to type a character with an accent is to first type ', followed…
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FlySpell in Org-Mode recognize latex syntax like auctex
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I was trying to figure out how in auctex mode latex doesn't seem to highlight any latex functions with flyspell turned on. Is this a custom dictionary file or how is this implemented? Can this be easily incorporated into an…
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How to disable checking C header names in Flyspell?
In Emacs when flyspell-prog-mode is active, C/C++ header names are also checked by Flyspell. So the spell checker complains of stdlib.h, stdio.h, but is ok with something like string.h.
Does anyone know how to fix this annoying Flyspell behavior?
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