Re: How to set default ispell.el dictionary

[marcuirl <marcuirl@imap.no2this.cc>]

bkhl@privat.utfors.se (Björn Lindström) writes:

> The following code in my .emacs fails to make Emacs use the British
> dictionary by default. The value of ispell-dictionary is still reported
> to be nil in any new buffers.
>
> (setq ispell-program-name "aspell"
>       ispell-extra-args '("--reverse")
>       ispell-dictionary "british"
>
>       spell-dictionary-alist
>       '(("svenska"
>          "[A-Za-z\345\344\366\305\304\366]" "[^A-Za-z\345\344\366\305\304\366]"
>          "[']" nil ("-d" "svenska") "~list" iso-latin-1)))

I would check to make sure that the British dictionary is installed
properly. On all redhat installations that I have used I have had to
mess with the hash and multi files in /usr/lib/ispell or
/usr/lib/aspell depending on versions. This just involved creating
links to point British to English or vice versa. i can't remember!

After that, can't help really.

marcu


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