aspell

This is an enormously painful setup and generally a painful program. But its a limited choice world it seems.

Install aspell is pretty simple. /usr/ports/textproc/aspell

We then want to get dictionaries - which are word lists in specific formats. The only place to get these and remain sane is http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict/en

After untarring, we run:

$ ./configure
Finding Dictionary file location ... /usr/local/share/aspell
Finding Data file location ... /usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60
$ sudo make
$ sudo make install

Now if we look in /usr/local/share/aspell we have a huge list of english words in aspell formats.

Using it with emacs:

M-$
or
M-x flyspell-mode