Is GNU Aspell the best spell checker for emacs on macOS?

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  • jinx

    🪄 Enchanted Spell Checker (by minad)

  • Thank you! I tried to get it working, but unfortunately it isn't compatible with MacOS. https://github.com/minad/jinx/issues/82

  • hunspell

    The most popular spellchecking library.

  • Hunspell seems popular as well. I believe it's the one used by Firefox and LibreOffice, and I think it's the system spell checker in MacOS already? 🤷‍♂️

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  • languagetool.el

    LanguageTool suggestions integrated within Emacs

  • So far it pretty great and easy to install. Plus is does grammar checking as well. I used this package in Emacs but there a several to try.

  • languagetool

    Style and Grammar Checker for 25+ Languages

  • I use windows 10 at work so aspell was was a little convuluted to try. But I had heard about Lnaguage Tool awhile back and gave that a try.

  • Emacs-langtool

    LanguageTool for Emacs

  • Language Tool does this, I believe, but I think it's modal rather than on-the-fly.

  • flycheck-languagetool

    Flycheck support for LanguageTool

  • See also flycheck-languagetool, if you're a Flycheck user.

  • nuspell

    🖋️ Fast and safe spellchecking C++ library

  • Another option is Nuspell.

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