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Re: spell on cygwin (was spell and nano)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Ehud Karni <ehud at unix dot mvs dot co dot il>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:58:53 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: spell on cygwin (was spell and nano)
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Ehud Karni wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2003 12:22:45 -0400, Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 11:46:34PM +1000, Gareth Pearce wrote:
> > >> ncurses so no termcap files are needed. I think the cygwin provided
> > >> version of nano is far superior as things like spell check would
> > >> actually work,
> > >
> > >This would be a theory - however since no one has ported and packaged spell
> > >to cygwin - it is not yet the (general) case.
>
> I use aspell <URL: http://aspell.sourceforge.net/ >. I downloaded the
> tarball <URL: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/aspell-0.50.3.tar.gz > and
> it compiled OOTB. I added a symbolic link: ispell -> aspell and it
> works perfectly in Emacs (I don't use nano).
>
> Thanks to Joe Buehler for his continuing work on Cygwin Emacs (when
> will we see 21.3 ?).
>
> BTW. CGF - this mail was somehow diagnosed as spam - why ?
>
> Ehud.
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