[macemacsjp-english 161] Installing new aspell dictionaries for Carbon Emacs Package

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Peter Heslin pj****@hesli*****
Wed Aug 17 20:10:16 JST 2005


Hello!

First of all, thanks for your work in producing the Carbon Emacs
Package.  I have a software project called Easymacs, which is a
configuration for Emacs oriented towards non-technical users.  I have
recently added instructions on how to use it under Mac OS X, and I
have recommended installing Carbon Emacs Package and the Easymacs.
There is some redundancy (both include AUCTeX, for example) but I am
not worried about that.  From my point of view, ease of installation
is the most important thing for non-technical users, and Carbon Emacs
Package is very easy to install.  Here are the installation
instructions:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Emacs/Easymacs/mac-install.php

In particular, it is great that it includes aspell.  I have tried
getting cocoAspell to work with Emacs, but it is not easy, and Fink is
too hard to use for non-technical users (as I know from experience).
So Carbon Emacs Package is the best solution.

Only one thing could be improved, I think.  It is not so easy to
install additional language dictionaries for aspell.  This is because
the default dict-dir points to /Volumes/Emacs/..., which probably only
exists on the developer's machine, and because the MacOS/bin directory
is not in the standard path.

I have put instructions up on my web-page on how to install additional
dictionaries for Carbon Emacs Package, but they are much too
complicated for non-technical users:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Emacs/Easymacs/mac-aspell-dicts.php

I wonder if you would consider providing a way to automate this
process?  For example, there could be an Emacs menu item that would
bring up a dialog to select a tar.bz2 file.  Then it would copy that
file to a temporary dir, run bunzip2, tar x, configure, make, copy the
files to Contents/Resources/lib/aspell-0.60/, and delete the temp
file.

Thanks again for Carbon Emacs Package!

Best wishes,

Peter Heslin



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