Aspell port

Daniel J. Luke dluke at geeklair.net
Wed Sep 1 12:15:45 UTC 2021


The aspell port installs a cli tool (as $prefix/bin/aspell)

You can see what a port installed by running `port contents portname` (so `port contents aspell`)

There's nothing there that would make aspell show up in Mail.app

It looks like cocoAspell is what you saw previously.

> On Sep 1, 2021, at 6:42 AM, Christoph Kukulies <kuku at kukulies.org> wrote:
> 
> macOS 11.5.2
> 
> I tried to install the aspell port  aspell @0.60.8_1 (textproc) plus appropiate language packs.
> 
> The port installs but I don’t see any traces of aspell in applications like Mail.app.
> 
> Any clues? I also experimented using brew and cocoAspell. For a while I saw German (Aspell) or Deutsch (Aspell) in
> but they seem to have disappeared by some action I did, but cannot reconstruct, what action it was. Maybe removing cocoAspell (?).
> 
> Any help appreciated. TIA.
> 
> Christoph

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