Do I have to set up anything in advance in order to use ispell in emacs with the aspell program? See the message below for the full story. I can't get past this read-only problem. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 09:50:22AM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:24:11PM +0200, Mathias Huber wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > > > > When I do any of the emacs commands like ispell-buffer or > > > ispell-region and the like, I keep getting a message in the prompt > > > line of emacs saying > > > "Text is read-only" > > > > That only concerns the contents auf the mini-buffer (where you enter > > commands). Do you use backspace in the mini-buffer? > > No, I type m-x followed by the commands I listed above. Right now, > I've been trying ispell-buffer where the buffer is a plain text file > with some text including intentionally miss-spelled words. > > > Do you do 'M-x ispell-change-dictionary' and select a dictionary, and > > then 'M-x ispell-buffer'? > > I usually just do the ispell-buffer or whatever. Once I tried the > change-dictionary command and hit enter to accept the current default. > > I just tried to ispell-region on this very message I'm typing right > now and I still got the > Text is read-only > message. I've used ispell a long time ago without these problems but > now I can't use it at all! I can use aspell out in the text console > with no problem but it just won't work in emacs! > > I don't understand what you mean about the error applying to the mini > buffer; I'm trying to spell check the main body, the text; not the > prompt. > > Any other ideas why this isn't working?
