spell-check keyboard shortcut in emacs

you can spell check in emacs with the command:

$ M-x ispell-buffer

however, that's not very convenient to do over and over; to create a shortcut to the spell-checker, add the following to your .emacs file:

(global-set-key "\C-c" 'ispell-buffer)

when you restart emacs, you'll find that pressing ctrl-c will instantly pull up the spellchecker.