Do I have to set up anything in advance in order to use ispell in emacs with the aspell program? See the message below for the full story. I can't get past this read-only problem. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:50:22AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Mathias Huber wrote:
Hi Steve,
When I do any of the emacs commands like ispell-buffer or ispell-region and the like, I keep getting a message in the prompt line of emacs saying "Text is read-only"
That only concerns the contents auf the mini-buffer (where you enter commands). Do you use backspace in the mini-buffer?
No, I type m-x followed by the commands I listed above. Right now, I've been trying ispell-buffer where the buffer is a plain text file with some text including intentionally miss-spelled words.
Do you do 'M-x ispell-change-dictionary' and select a dictionary, and then 'M-x ispell-buffer'?
I usually just do the ispell-buffer or whatever. Once I tried the change-dictionary command and hit enter to accept the current default.
I just tried to ispell-region on this very message I'm typing right now and I still got the Text is read-only message. I've used ispell a long time ago without these problems but now I can't use it at all! I can use aspell out in the text console with no problem but it just won't work in emacs!
I don't understand what you mean about the error applying to the mini buffer; I'm trying to spell check the main body, the text; not the prompt.
Any other ideas why this isn't working?