Re: Aspell question?

Hi,

I'm not sure what the problem is.  If you could attach the .aspell.en.pws I 
might have a better idea.

Thanks,
Kevin
Aspell Maintainer

On Sat, 29 Dec 2012, William H. Magill wrote:

> This is probably strictly an Aspell question, not mac ports...
> I'm a long time ispell user converting to Aspell.   I've installed Aspell and its dictionary via mac ports.
>
> (This is also on a new (Black Thursday) Mac-mini with OSX 10.8.2 and OSX Server 2.2)
>
> sudo port install aspell
> sudo port install aspell-dict-en
>
> both apparently installed with no errors.
>
> to my .emacs file, I've added:
> (setq-default ispell-program-name "aspell")
> (setq-default ispell-extra-args '("--reverse"))
>
> I ran "aspell-import
> ( that process complained about /M and similar inclusions in my .ispell_english file, which surprised me.)
>
> Now, when I run ispell on my emacs buffer, I get:
>
> "Error: /Users/magill/.aspell.en.pws: The word "personal_ws-1.1 en 635 " is invalid. The character '_' (U+5F) may\
> not appear in the middle of a word."
>
> This is "sort of true" -- that is the header line created by aspell, and is as is documented at aspell.net
>
> So the question is: Which is it... an issue with the macports aspell installation or an issue with aspell itself?
>
>
> T.T.F.N.
> William H. Magill
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