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samarasa
Asked: 2011-06-16 09:35:15 +0800 CST

Getting error with spell check in nano

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I am getting the following error while doing spell check in nano editor. Please help to resolve this. 

Spell checking failed: Error invoking "spell": Bad file descriptot
nano

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    edit nanorc file and enable spell checker. 

    sudo vi /etc/nanorc

    and uncomment the line 

    set speller "aspell -x -c"
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  2. nano depends on a spell-checker program. Such a program is aspellInstall aspell. You can install it with:

    sudo apt-get install aspell
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