[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

[Steve Holmes]

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?