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  OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 02:20 +0200
    Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-04-24 02:50 +0200
      Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 03:10 +0200
    Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-04-24 03:40 +0200
      Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2017-04-24 04:10 +0200
        Re: OT Big Dummy mutt question songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-04-24 04:40 +0200

#180428 — OT Big Dummy mutt question

Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell 
working. Currently I have in .muttrc:

set ispell="ispell --mode=email"

This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high 
spirits that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. 
Alas and alack. these arrived at their intended destinations 
with their test misspellings intact.

Could it be (he asked) that spell-checking in mutt does not 
follow on auto-magically (if that is the word I'm looking for 
here) via the bare expedient of creating an entry in .muttrc 
such as is on display several lines above?

Throwing myself on Google's mercy leads me to believe that the 
only editor permitted (so to speak) with mutt is vim. I refuse 
to accept this, and, if found to be true, would protest in the 
strongest available terms through proper channels.

Please help.

Thank you.

-- 
"Natasha! First we shoot jet, then we go after moose and squirrel."

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#180430

On Sun 23 Apr 2017 at 19:47:49 (-0400), Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell working.
> Currently I have in .muttrc:
> 
> set ispell="ispell --mode=email"
> 
> This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high spirits
> that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. Alas and
> alack. these arrived at their intended destinations with their test
> misspellings intact.
> 
> Could it be (he asked) that spell-checking in mutt does not follow
> on auto-magically (if that is the word I'm looking for here) via the
> bare expedient of creating an entry in .muttrc such as is on display
> several lines above?

According to my key bindings, you should press i when in the compose
menu, the one where you then press y to send it, or e to edit it again.
At this point, the message is in /tmp or /var/tmp or wherever you
configured it.

> Throwing myself on Google's mercy leads me to believe that the only
> editor permitted (so to speak) with mutt is vim. I refuse to accept
> this, and, if found to be true, would protest in the strongest
> available terms through proper channels.

Eh? You can use any editor; I use emacs. You should put
set editor="invocation command and parameters"
in the same file as the ispell setting.

/usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt*

Cheers,
David.

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#180431

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, David Wright wrote:

> According to my key bindings, you should press i when in the 
> compose menu [...]

Yes, my 'help' there also shows i associated with ispell. But 
pressing i only causes the screen to blip very momentarily 
without showing any ispell activity and then return to where it 
was. No change is made to the message.

ispell seems functional when tried from the command line.

:(


-- 
"Natasha! First we shoot jet, then we go after moose and squirrel."

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#180433

Bob Bernstein wrote:
> Mutt (1.5.23) is rebuffing my every attempt to get ispell 
> working. Currently I have in .muttrc:
>
> set ispell="ispell --mode=email"
>
> This threw no error when mutt launched, so it was with high 
> spirits that I tried to send off deliberately misspelled emails. 
> Alas and alack. these arrived at their intended destinations 
> with their test misspellings intact.
>
> Could it be (he asked) that spell-checking in mutt does not 
> follow on auto-magically (if that is the word I'm looking for 
> here) via the bare expedient of creating an entry in .muttrc 
> such as is on display several lines above?
>
> Throwing myself on Google's mercy leads me to believe that the 
> only editor permitted (so to speak) with mutt is vim. I refuse 
> to accept this, and, if found to be true, would protest in the 
> strongest available terms through proper channels.
>
> Please help.

  i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch
and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at
all and it just works.

  what does mutt -v | grep SPELL say?

and/or:

  if you remove your set line does it work?

  or if you use /usr/bin/ispell?



  songbird

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#180436

On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, songbird wrote:

>  i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch
> and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at
> all and it just works.

I tried the "no setting in .muttrc" and that did the trick.

Which strikes me as sorta weird, but then, with so much 
weirdness around nowadays, why pick on mutt?

What should we call that approach, Alt-Minimalist?

Incidentally:

$ mutt -v | grep SPELL
-ISPELL

$ which ispell
/usr/bin/ispell

Thanks all!

-- 
"Natasha! First we shoot jet, then we go after moose and squirrel."

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#180437

Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2017, songbird wrote:
>
>>  i'm using the version of mutt in testing/stretch
>> and can say that i have no setting in .muttrc at
>> all and it just works.
>
> I tried the "no setting in .muttrc" and that did the trick.
>
> Which strikes me as sorta weird, but then, with so much 
> weirdness around nowadays, why pick on mutt?
>
> What should we call that approach, Alt-Minimalist?
>
> Incidentally:
>
> $ mutt -v | grep SPELL
> -ISPELL

  ha!  interesting!  :)


> $ which ispell
> /usr/bin/ispell
>
> Thanks all!

  y.w.  :)  glad it is working.


  also interesting to compare:

$  mutt -v | grep SPELL

ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"

  (currently at version: NeoMutt 20170113 (1.7.2) on i386)


  songbird

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