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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Integrating micro-spell
Summary: confusion
Keywords: MicroSPELL
Message-ID: <6475@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 88 22:20:26 GMT
References: <1173@sjuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <1173@sjuvax.UUCP> tmoody@sjuvax.UUCP (T. Moody) writes:
>
>This is in fact a question about the micro-emacs 3.9e macro language...
>
>What I want to do is to run micro-spell from within emacs, on a file
>that I am editing.

	What version of MicroEMACS are you running? Version 3.9, which
was the first distributed with MicroSPELL, included a word processing
page to run the spell checker on the current file.  Try calling up the
word processing page (via F8) and using shift-F6 to spell check the file
(or just look at the code if you are on a machine without function
keys.) It shells out to run spell and then executes scan.cmd.

>set %comline &cat "spell " $cfname
>shell-command @%comline
               ^what is this for? an interactive prompt here????
This makes no sense...should the line be:
 shell-command %commline
          ?
>execute-file "scan.cmd"
>-- 
>Todd Moody * {allegra|astrovax|bpa|burdvax}!sjuvax!tmoody * SJU Phil. Dept.

	I hope this makes sense, if you still can't get it running, send
me some more details (versions.. copies of files  etc) and I will try to
figure it out.

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