Re: Weird problems using aspell in Aquamacs 2.4

Hi David,

thanks for your reply. I have no problem with the standard OS X spell-checker. I erased my customization for
the variable 'ispell-programm-name', which was aspell and is now NSSpellChecker and it seems to work so far.

Best regards
  Martin

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Weird problems using aspell in Aquamacs 2.4

Hi all,

it has been a while since I used the wonderful Aquamacs on a regular basis but now I am working on one of my hobby
projects and stumbled about a problem I was not able to solve with all my experience in different Emacs
flavors and after spending two nights surfing the web for a solution. So, I hope someone can point me to the
right direction here.

I am using macports aspell on my system with dictionaries for german and english. I have set the variable
'ispell-dictionary' to 'de-alt' which is the dictionary for the old german orthography. If I invoke
ispell via 'M-x ispell-buffer' everything is fine. But if I want to work on an english text and set the file
local variable 'ispell-local-dictionary' to 'en' or invoke the command 'ispell-change-dictionary'
to change the dict I get the following error after 'M-x ispell buffer'. 

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Error: Expected language \"en\" but got \"de-alt\".")
>   signal(error ("Error: Expected language \"en\" but got \"de-alt\"."))
>   ad-Orig-error("%s" "Error: Expected language \"en\" but got \"de-alt\".")
>   apply(ad-Orig-error ("%s" "Error: Expected language \"en\" but got \"de-alt\"."))
>   error("%s" "Error: Expected language \"en\" but got \"de-alt\".")
>   ispell-init-process()
>   ispell-buffer-local-words()
>   ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs()
>   ispell-region(1 637)
>   ispell-buffer()
>   call-interactively(ispell-buffer t nil)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
> 

I tried to delete all customization in the ispell group without any difference so far. Using flyspell leads
to the same error, which should be expected I guess. I couldn't find any location where aspell is forced to

mac-right-option-modifier in AppKit emacs?

I'm using an AppKit build of Emacs 23 based on YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu's
patches.  I currently have the following settings:

    (setq mac-command-modifier 'meta)
    (setq mac-option-modifier nil)

so meta is immediately to the left of the spacebar, where my thumb expects
to find it, and option is passed through to MacOS, for extended characters.

I'd like to use right-option as super, if possible.  According to
<http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsForMacOS#toc23>, I should be able to
say

    (setq mac-right-option-modifier 'super)

but that doesn't have any effect.  Indeed, if I restart emacs to clear the
effects of this attempted setting, then describe-variable doesn't recognize
the variable, and typing M-: mac-right-option-modifier drops me into the
Lisp debugger, because the symbol's variable binding is void (or whatever
the elisp error is; you know what I mean).

Is this a known bug/limitation of the AppKit build, is the wiki page out of
date, or am I missing something?

Thanks,

Richard

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Opening files in a tab (not a frame)

Apologies for a really elementary question, the answer to which I should be able to find for myself.  But
after recent migrations from one system to another, with various things replaced, I find that Aquamacs
now always opens a new file in a new frame.  It used to open new files in a new tab in the current frame, but I
can't recall what had to be set for that to be the behavior.  Actually, what I would most like is for the File
menu to offer both as options, but I'll settle for a way to get files to open in a new tab, which is what I
usually want…

Thanks for your patience,

--

-- 
Steve Anderson

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Org mode keymap problem

Hello,

I have the following in my Preferences.el file:

(add-hook 'org-mode-hook
	  (lambda ()
	    (auto-fill-mode 1)
	    (define-key org-mode-map [kp-enter] 'org-meta-return)
	    (define-key org-mode-map [prior] 'org-metaup)
	    (define-key org-mode-map [next]  'org-metadown)
	    (define-key org-mode-map [home] 'org-metaleft)
	    (define-key org-mode-map [end] 'org-metaright)
	    ))

This allows me to use "fn" as my alt key and bypass the fact, for 
instance, that "fn up" is actually the "prior" key.

Unfortunately, for some reason, some of these key bindings do not work 
in org mode: the "prior" and "next" one are correctly bound, but the 
"home" and "end" one remain bound to "beginning-of-buffer" and 
"end-of-buffer".

Could someone give me a hand to try to figure this out? I'm using 
Aquamacs 2.4.

Thanks,

Alan

distinguishing various flavors of emacs in elisp

I've been running an install of "Emacs for MacOS X" (apologies; not sure
what the technical name for this build is, but I mean the one from
http://emacsformacosx.com/), and I've recently switched to an AppKit build
of 23.3b that I did myself, with help from David Reiter and Peter Dyballa
-- see the thread late last month on this mailing list about displaying
Devanagari correctly.

I find that I need to adjust a couple of parameters in my .emacs file
slightly differently for the two builds -- most notably, line-spacing in
default-frame-alist.  What's the best way to distinguish between the two
builds in elisp?  Grepping for "AppKit" (as opposed to "appkit") in the
output of emacs-version?

Thanks,

Richard

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aquamacs

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Small tip on Aquamacs spell checking when some words in foreign language are not highlighted

Hello,

I just wrote the following email to ask for help, but as I wrote it I figured out what was going on so I thought I
could share it here.

I'm using Aquamacs 2.4 on Lion. I have flyspell enabled and I chose to use the French dictionary and spell
check as I type. Unfortunately words in English which do not exist in French are not highlighted. I've
tried typing words in German and Italian, and those are also no highlighted as incorrect.

Digging a little bit, I found that if I do "Edit -> Show spelling panel" I can change the language from
"automatic" to "French", and then things get correctly highlighted.

Maybe Aquamacs should change the setting from "automatic" to the language chosen when doing a "M-x ispell-change-dictionary".

Alan

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German quotes in Aquamacs 2.4

Hello,

as my Carbon Emacs is sadly getting more and more out of date, I am
testing Aquamacs 2.4 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. Localisation is German. To make
i clear, I do not like it that Aquamacs attempts to provide an Apple
user interface as I prefer to have the same interface on all platforms I
use Emacs on.

I use Emacs for writing Mediawiki and Wordpress posts offline. This is
why I also need to to insert German quotes „“ in my plain text files,
saving them in utf-8 encoding.

So, I have set Options | Language | Set language environment | European
to German and saved options by Options | Save options.

With a German keyboard layout, German quotes are input as shown above by
typing option-^ and option-2. In Aquamacs, though, only left German
quotes work, as option-2 is used otherwise.

Is there a way to have option-2 work for right German quotes as usual in
Aquamacs?

Thanks in advance!

Regards,
Jürgen.

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grep/PowerPC? Mac OS X lion? Xcode?

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very good

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