Spell checking not possible on Mac OS X: aspell not found

[sander]

It seems aspel can't be found on Mac OS X as the Spell checker can't be enabled. Aspell can be found in:
/sw/bin/aspell

[Mats (matsben)]

I'm not sure exactly what happens here. I use 'which aspell' to find
its path, if it exists.
On my Mac I get

matben% tclsh
% exec which aspell
/sw/bin/aspell

See contrib/spell.tcl : spell::AutoExecOK
and see if you can figure out why aspell isn't found.

On 12/16/07, Launchpad Bug Tracker <email address hidden> wrote:
> You have been subscribed to a public bug:
>
> It seems aspel can't be found on Mac OS X as the Spell checker can't be
> enabled. Aspell can be found in:
> /sw/bin/aspell
>
> ** Affects: coccinella
> Importance: Medium
> Assignee: Mats (matsben)
> Status: New
>
> --
> Spell checking not possible on Mac OS X: aspell not found
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/176684
> You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.
>

[sander (s-devrieze)]

2007/12/20, Mats <email address hidden>:
> I'm not sure exactly what happens here. I use 'which aspell' to find
> its path, if it exists.
> On my Mac I get
>
> matben% tclsh
> % exec which aspell
> /sw/bin/aspell

exec which aspell
no aspell in /usr/bin /bin /usr/sbin /sbin
() 2 %

Can you also set /sw/bin to be in the PATH?

--
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.

[Mats (matsben)]

From the systems perspective you are missing /sw/bin/in your shells
PATH variable. So this is a system misconfiguration. As a fallback I
have added:

    if {$::tcl_platform(os) eq "Darwin"} {
 # Seems not always in PATH variable.
 spell::addautopath /sw/bin/
    }