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I'm in trouble to make flyspell to work in emacs. I'm a Mac user, but I'm not using Aquamacs, which seems to provide this facility by default.
Starting new Ispell process [/usr/local/bin/aspell::default] ...
ispell-init-process: Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".
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Flyspell mode is a minor mode that performs automatic spell-checking of the text you type as you type it. When it finds a word that it does not recognize, it highlights that word. Type M-x flyspell-mode to toggle Flyspell mode in the current buffer.
Just type away and Flyspell will check your spelling on the fly. Incorrectly spelled words will get a nice little red squiggly line underneath them. To correct words or to add words to your personal dictionary, just right-click (or two-finger-click on a Mac) on the word you want to fix and an option box will pop up.
The error message is trying to tell you that Emacs started the external program aspell in a subprocess, which is good, but that it couldn't find its dictionary file, which is bad.
Try typing M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET SPC to see if there are any dictionary files that Emacs knows about, and select one of them.
If that doesn't work, then there is something wrong with your installation of flyspell. What to try next depends on the version of Emacs you are using (the terminal version that comes with OS X, a newer terminal version installed via Homebrew or MacPorts, the Cocoa version, or Aquamacs). On my machine, for example, I am running Cocoa Emacs 24 under Snow Leopard, and flyspell.el comes preinstalled, but to actually get it to work I had to install the aspell package using Homebrew (which provided the aspell executable and its dictionary files). Can you give us more information about your environment (OS X version, Emacs version, etc.)?
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