[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

[Steve Holmes]

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?