emacs on mac os x, how to get spell check to work

Question

I\'m moving from Windows to Mac, and I\'ve spent the whole night trying to get emacs to work.

I\'ve installed GNU emacs and simply copied over my Windows .ema

Answer 1

Emacs installed with brew cask install emacs will come with a built in spell checker called m-x ispell.

You have to do two things to get this to work.

1. brew install aspell or maybe brew install aspell --with-lang-en

2. go to emacs and evaluate this function or better yet put it in your init file (setq ispell-program-name "/usr/local/bin/aspell")

Note: the location of aspell can be found using which aspell in macOS terminal which should be equal tot step 2. above.

Answer 2

Here's a working solution:

• Install Homebrew
• brew install emacs --with-cocoa --with-gnutls
• brew install aspell
• open -a Emacs
• M-x ispell

Enjoy!