On my Mac (Snow Leopard, 10.6.8), I\'m using a modified version of Emacs 24.2 provided here to utilize Emacs Speaks Statistics (ESS) from the downloads page. Emacs works, but I
I used homebrew to install ispell and apsell and would get which ever one I set in ~/.emacs with
[iMac ~]$ cat .emacs (setq ispell-program-name "/usr/local/bin/aspell")
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