ispell for emacs?

[cgp314]

Hello everyone,

I like to use emacs as my primary writing tool, and I just got a mac recently, so I thought I'd give it a try.

Emacs is on there and I can open in terminal mode (the way I prefer to have it) but when I try to spell check a document, I get a message telling me that ispell is not available.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks in advance for your time.

-Colin

[cfleck]

my guess is that you have to install it. me thinks ispell is its own package. try fink maybe?

[michaelsanford]

Yeah ispell is available from fink. If you already have fink installed, open a terminal and type sudo fink install ispell. If you don't have fink, get it here http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12077

[cgp314]

Thanks for trying to help.

I entered that command and I got this as errors at the bottom:

(export TMPDIR=/tmp; make config.sh; cp config.sh config.sh.BUILD; sed 's|/sw|/sw/src/root-ispell-3.2.06-3/sw|g' < config.sh.BUILD > config.sh.INSTALL; make)
sh: line 1: make: command not found
cp: config.sh: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: config.sh.BUILD: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: make: command not found
### execution of (export failed, exit code 127
Failed: compiling ispell-3.2.06-3 failed

Any ideas?

[cgp314]

Originally Posted by cgp314

Thanks for trying to help.

I entered that command and I got this as errors at the bottom:

(export TMPDIR=/tmp; make config.sh; cp config.sh config.sh.BUILD; sed 's|/sw|/sw/src/root-ispell-3.2.06-3/sw|g' < config.sh.BUILD > config.sh.INSTALL; make)
sh: line 1: make: command not found
cp: config.sh: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: config.sh.BUILD: No such file or directory
sh: line 1: make: command not found
### execution of (export failed, exit code 127
Failed: compiling ispell-3.2.06-3 failed

Any ideas?

Never mind. I fixed that and got ispell installed, but now when I use emacs, it loads ispell, but never makes any suggestions for the misspelled works. Is there a dictionary I have to install as well?