It is generally not necessary to install either ispell.el
or flyspell.el
, because they both come packaged with most installations of Emacs. They are elisp
files that do not need to built -- Emacs is designed to read elisp
files such as ispell.el
and/or flyspell.el
.
Instead, what needs to be installed is a third-party executable such as aspell
or hunspell
. The language dictionaries will also need to be installed after the main executable is installed.
Essentially, ispell.el
and flyspell.el
(with help from Emacs) are front-ends for aspell
or hunspell
.
NOTE: OSX ships with an older version of Emacs. Instead of using an older version (e.g., /usr/bin/emacs
), consider using a current version built --with-ns
: http://emacsformacosx.com/ For more information on different builds that are available for OSX, the following link has some informative write-ups: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/271/what-is-the-difference-between-aquamacs-and-other-mac-versions-of-emacs