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Subject: interactive spell checker wanted
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Date: 28 Jun 89 18:08:10 GMT
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>	Does anyone have code that would propose alternate spellings
>for words that are misspelled?  (Invoking the unix spell program
>obviously doesn't handle that too well.)

Assuming you're using GNU Emacs on a Unix system, what you want is
ispell and its Emacs interface, ispell.el.  I believe both are
available via anonymous ftp from prep.ai.mit.edu.

If you have lispdir.el, you could have done:

	M-x lisp-dir-apropos [RET] spell [RET]

Which would pop up a buffer containing, among other things, this
reference:

ispell		  87-10-26
     Ashwin Ram, <Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu,(B) Ram@yalecs,yale!Ram-Ashwin>
     tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/as-is/ispell.el.Z
     Ispell interface.

[Actually, you wouldn't get the third line, which tells you that
ispell is archived on tut.]  More information on lispdir and the elisp
archives on tut is available from the files lispdir.doc.Z,
lispdir.el.Z, and LCD-datafile.Z

-Dave Sill
 dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil
 Elisp Archive Coordinator