AW: AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion

[C.Strobl]

hello eli,
 
in deed what you write sounds for me a little bit like words from a crystal 
ball. i am not an experienced linux/unix-user and i don't know what a word-file 
is.
 
i have installed aspell according the very clear instructions from paul bowman
 
1. Locate and download pre-compiled 4 windows packages for aspell and
relevant dictionary from http://aspell.net/win32/ <http://aspell.net/win32/> 

2. Run aspell installer then dictionary installer

3. add <install location>\Aspell\bin to PATH

4. add (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell") to your .emacs

5. restart emacs
 
and then i have installed egrep according your recommendation
 
1) install now grep for windows f.g  the unxutils 
(http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ <http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/> )
 
2) add the bin-path (..\usr\local\wbin) to to the path-variable.

and now i get the follwing message running M-x ispell-complete-word:

byte-code: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

thats my actual state. 

do you guess i shall add the following line to my .emacs-file

(setq-default ispell-alternate-dictionary  
"C:\Programme\Aspell\dict\en-only.rws") 

again i don't know the word-file for unix or its counterpart for aspell. aspell 
has only dictionaries so far i know.

thanks

christian

p.s. is there no common specified way (f.g. anywhere in the emacs manual or 
emacs faq or wiki or ...) for windows users configuring emacs for 
spell-checking and word completion. i didn't find it.

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Von: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:address@hidden
Gesendet: Sa 29.07.2006 16:39
An: Strobl, Christian
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
Betreff: Re: AW: AW: [h-e-w] Emacsw32 and spell-checking and word completion



> Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 16:23:11 +0200
> From: <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>
> i have installed now the unxutils (http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/) and 
> added the bin-path (..\usr\local\wbin) to to the path-variable.
> now i am one step further and i get the following message
> 
> byte-code: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

My crystal ball says that you don't have the `words' file.  If it came
with the speller distribution, customize the variable
ispell-alternate-dictionary to point to its full absolute file name;
if it didn't come with the speller, you need to find it somewhere
(every Unix and GNU/Linux station has such a file somewhere) and
install it on your system.