Re: Changing ispell dictionary

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:

Hi Sven,

> Does somebody have a bright idea how to automatically change the local
> dictionary in the message buffer (assuming that a newsgroup or mail
> recipient is known; of course it cannot be guessed if I just type C-x
> m outside of Gnus)?  There are various *message-*hook variables and I
> don't know which to choose.

At least for newsgroups you could do something like this:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(defun th-switch-ispell-dictionary ()
  (save-excursion
    (message-goto-newsgroups)
    (let ((newsgroups (buffer-substring-no-properties
                       (line-beginning-position) (line-end-position))))
      (cond ((string-match (rx " de.") newsgroups)
             (ispell-change-dictionary "german"))
            ((string-match (rx " fr.") newsgroups)
             (ispell-change-dictionary "french"))
            (t
             (ispell-change-dictionary "english"))))))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I didn't test it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if it works. ;-)

For mail recipients you could probably use a field in the bbdb which
indicates the receivers language, or simply guess by the top-level
domain of the email address.

Bye,
Tassilo