[arch-general] Spell Checking in Emacs

[Ashish SHUKLA]

Steve Holmes writes:
> I found some more information concerning the ispell problem with
> emacs.  It seems that if I do ispell-buffer, region, or word on clean
> data (correctly spelled), I don't get any errors in the mini buffer
> and in fact, ispell-word even tells me the word is correct.  Fine -
> that works as it should.  However, as soon as there is a miss-spelled
> word to report, then is when I get the error in the mini-buffer saying
> that the text is read-only.  It would appear that maybe ispell can't
> open a buffer to display the word choices.  I don't know emacs lisp
> well enough to try and debug this thing but it's beginning to look
> like nobody else here is getting the problem or doesn't use this
> combination with emacs.  Any other ideas out there?

Try flyspell-mode[1]. AFAIK, it's bundled with Emacs 23 or later.

References:
[1]  http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FlySpell

HTH
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