# auto-spell(3)

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## NAME

auto-spell - Auto-spell support
auto-spell-menu - Auto-spell context menu
auto-spell-buffer - Auto-spell whole buffer
auto-spell-reset - Auto-spell hilight reset
auto-spell-ignore - Auto-spell ignore current word

## SYNOPSIS

n auto-spell
auto-spell-buffer
auto-spell-reset
n auto-spell-ignore

## DESCRIPTION

auto-spell enables and disables the auto spell checking of the current buffer. Auto spell detects word breaks as you type and checks the spelling of every completed word hilighting any erroneous words in the error color scheme (usually red).

The argument n determines whether auto-spell is enabled or disabled, a positive argument enables and a negative argument disables. If no argument or 0 is supplied the auto-spell state is toggled.

auto-spell-menu opens the auto-spell context menu which lists suggested corrections for the current word and other useful auto-spell commands and configuration options. This menu can also be accessed via the main mouse context menu when the current buffer has auto spell enabled.

auto-spell-buffer checks all words within the current buffer for spell, hilighting any unknown or miss-spelled words found.

auto-spell-reset resets the buffer hilighting scheme, removing any added erroneous words.

auto-spell-ignore gets the current word and deletes the erroneous hilighting and adds the word to the current temporary ignore dictionary, auto-spell and the spelling-checker will now ignore the word. If an argument n of 2 is given to the command the word is added to the users personal dictionary instead of the temporary ignore dictionary so the word is 'ignored' in all future sessions of MicroEmacs as well.

## NOTES

auto-spell, auto-spell-buffer, auto-spell-reset and auto-spell-ignore are macros defined in `spellaut.emf`.

## SEE ALSO

user-setup(3), spell-buffer(3), spell(2).

(c) Copyright JASSPA 2009
Last Modified: 2009/08/29
Generated On: 2009/10/12

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