Good alternative for ASpell?

Question

Is there any good alternative to ASpell? It's nice open source, but haven't been updated for a while. The performance is not too good and I am having trouble creating a custom worklist with non-alpha characters.

Bouilli

And according to an excellent article at alexwlchan.net/2016/09/please-use-aspell, the --personal flag is broken, which matches my own experience. This precludes sharing a dictionary via a repository. – Julieannjulien

Answer 1

Hunspell. It's what Firefox uses for its spellchecker.

Witchcraft

It‘s not obvious, but links to the needed dictionaries (for ~/Library/Spelling/ on MacOS) are at, e.g., cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/… & cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/dictionaries/plain/en/… – Julieannjulien

Answer 2

Check out Hunspell.

Joejoeann

Answer 3

There is also Ispell, might not be faster or better maintained, but it supports international characters. I don't know how it compares to Hunspell.

Laxation

Answer 4

I switched to aspell for emacs flyspell program, but it kept freezing my pc and I switched back to ispell.

(setq-default ispell-program-name "ispell")

Layby