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# -*- readme-debian -*-
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Using aspell with ispell.el
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Ispell.el assumes you use ispell, if you use aspell write
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(setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
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in your {x}emacs configuration file.
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ispell.el loading at startup
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Emacs comes dumped with an ispell-menu-map containing a set of
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dictionaries that won't be what's actually present. To make it match the
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actually installed dictionaries some magic is done in the
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/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50dictionaries-common.el
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file, but that will force loading of ispell.el even if you do not intend
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to use it at all. If you do not like that behavior, (lisp) comment the
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(setq ispell-menu-xemacs nil)
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(ispell-change-dictionary nil)
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in that file. Since that is a conffile your changes will be preserved if
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you choose that at package upgrade.
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Adding customized entries for emacs
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You can currently do this in two ways in your {x}emacs configuration file,
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The classical one, e.g.,
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(setq ispell-dictionary-alist
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(append ispell-dictionary-alist
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'(("british+accs" ; British version
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"[A-Z\321\324a-z\361\364]"
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"[^A-Z\321\324a-z\361\364]"
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("-B" "-d" "british-w_accents")
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where some dummy accented characters have been added. You will lose this
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entry if ispell.el is reloaded.
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You can also use the debian-ispell.el provided function
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'debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry'
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(if (fboundp 'debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry)
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(debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry ... )
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(debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry ... )
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(setq ispell-dictionary-alist debian-ispell-dictionary-alist)
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; --------------------
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where each of the calls to 'debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry' is
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; --------------------
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(debian-ispell-add-dictionary-entry
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"[A-Z\321\324a-z\361\364]"
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"[^A-Z\321\324a-z\361\364]"
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("-B" "-d" "british-w_accents")
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; --------------------
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Remember to reset ispell-dictionary-list after this, as shown above. Also
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better use as above the octal codes for the accented characters rather
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than the character itself. This will save you some problems with editors
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and with emacs itself.
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The trailing "aspell" is currently not used, but is intended to mean
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that the dict is available for aspell only. In the future it is possible
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that, for systems where both ispell and aspell are installed, can be
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implemented an automatic selection of the spellchecker program based on
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the value of 'ispell-program-name' and dict availability for that entry
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and spellchecker. But this is currently just smoke.
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Using ispell-local-dictionary-alist does not currently work, but it
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-- Agustin Martin Domingo <agmartin@debian.org>, Fri Apr 8 12:23:01 2005
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