ispell

I write mostly my documentation in HTML using emacs as my main editor. Emacs let you interactively spell-check the current buffer with the command ispell-buffer . Since I switch between a number of languages, I have an HTML comment at the end of the file specifying the main dictionary and personal dictionary for that file, E.g. for Norwegian (norsk) I use the following pair of dictionaries: <!-- Local IspellDict: norsk --> <!-- Local IspellPersDict: ~/.aspell/personal.dict --> This works great. However, sometimes I have a paragraph in another language (e.g. English) embedded in an otherwise

I was wondering how could I remove one (wrongly inserted) entry/word from the ispell private-dictionary. EDIT after more digging i am still unable to delete entries from default dictionary, but I think the solution could be around buildhash program. The problem is to generate the list of entries to delete... i do not find a simple example. On my cygwin install ispell is just a wrapper around aspell : $ ispell Ispell compatibility script for Aspell. Usage: /usr/bin/ispell [options] -a|-l|-v[v]|-c|-e[1-4]|<file> If that is true of your installation, then you need to look at aspell files. Try