ac-ispell.el

Introduction

ac-ispell.el is ispell/aspell completion source for auto-complete. ac-ispell also supports UPCASE completion and Capitalized completion.

Screenshot

UPCASE Completion

Capitalized completion

Installation

ac-ispell is available on MELPA and MELPA stable

You can install ac-ispell with the following command.

M-x package-install [RET] ac-ispell [RET]

Requirements

• Emacs 23 or higher
• auto-complete
• ispell/aspell

How to use ac-ispell completion source

You can call ac-ispell-ac-setup at hooks.

(add-hook 'some-mode-hook 'ac-ispell-ac-setup)

Commands

ac-ispell-setup

Declare ispell/aspell auto-complete source based on ac-ispell-requires. The source name of auto-complete is ac-source-ispell. This command must be called at the beginning.

ac-ispell-ac-setup

Setup ispell auto-complete source and enable auto-complete-mode if auto-complete is not enabled.

Set Other Dictionary

You can set other dictionary by setting ispell-complete-word-dict.

(setq ispell-complete-word-dict "DictionaryFilePath")

Customize Variables

ac-ispell-requires(Default 3)

Required number of characters of this source completion. You should change this value before calling ac-ispell-setup.

I recommend to use custom-set-variables for setting this value.

ac-ispell-fuzzy-limit(Default 2)

Number of fuzzy completion candidates. If this value is 0, fuzzy completion is disabled.

ac-ispell-cache-size(Default 20)

Cache size.

Sample Configuration

;; Completion words longer than 4 characters
(custom-set-variables
  '(ac-ispell-requires 4)
  '(ac-ispell-fuzzy-limit 2))

(eval-after-load "auto-complete"
  '(progn
      (ac-ispell-setup)))

(add-hook 'git-commit-mode-hook 'ac-ispell-ac-setup)
(add-hook 'mail-mode-hook 'ac-ispell-ac-setup)