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by sympodius 2943 days ago
Flyspell in Emacs 26.1 seems to require a version of Aspell that is not officially available for Windows. I might need to put off the upgrade until I can attempt to compile a newer Aspell for Windows myself.

"Error enabling Flyspell mode: (aspell release 0.60 or greater is required)"
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sympodius 2940 days ago
In case anyone else was facing this problem (and isn't too committed to Aspell as a backend for Flyspell), the version of Hunspell from ezwinports[1] (version 1.3.2 at time of posting) seems to be working with Emacs 26.1 on Windows.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/

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rusk 2938 days ago
I'm not sure how you feel about cygwin? aspell 0.6 is available from there, and I've just tried it out with emacs and it works well.
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