Getting spell checker to work - emacs-plus on Mac
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torte13 · 2022-04-08 21:18

I am on an Apple Silicon Mac and following the discussions and
recommendations [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/lijn31/
best_emacs_port_for_mac_early_2021_edition/) I installed emacs-plus
via Homebrew. Overall everything works well except that I cannot get
the spell checker to work. I installed aspell (also via homebrew) but
when I add `(add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)` I get the
following error message:

Error enabling Flyspell mode: (Searching for program No such file or
directory ispell)

It appears emacs does not look for aspell in the right path. Ant
advice how to get this to work?

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Alan_Shutko · 2022-04-08 21:39

It looks like it's defaulting to ispell, which is different from
aspell.  Try customizing `ispell-program-name` (set to "aspell" in my
config).

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TrepidTurtle · 2022-04-08 22:24

Also make sure your path is set correctly, i.e. Emacs can find
wherever you installed aspell.

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redguardtoo · 2022-04-09 03:07

Use homebrew, `brew install aspell`

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ReallyRussell · 2022-04-09 05:19

set ispell-really-aspell to t
install aspell (generally with brew)
verify that aspell is in your path
use exec-path-from-shell to be sure the emacs is using that path.

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torte13 · 2022-04-09 06:16

Thank you! That's what I did. aspell is in the /opt/homebrew/cellar
folder as is emacs.

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torte13 · 2022-04-09 06:18

>set ispell-really-aspell to t

Sorry for the newbie-ness but I take it this goes into my .emcas file?
Correct?

> use exec-path-from-shell to be sure the emacs is using that path
Could you please elaborate how? I am sorry, I am still new to this.
Thank you!