bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el)

[Reuben Thomas]

On 6 December 2016 at 18:41, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 18:11:16 +0000
> Cc: 25107@debbugs.gnu.org
>
>  Or let me ask this: why does ispell-version at all exist? Perhaps I'm
>  confused about its purpose.
>
> ​My understanding is that it exists for reporting bugs in the combination of ispell.el and whatever spell checker
> you are using. When ispell.el was distributed as third-party code, there were extra two useful pieces of
> information: the version of the spell-checker program, and the version of ispell.el.

Sorry, I goofed: I meant ispell-check-version, the command, when
invoked interactively -- what is its purpose?  It sounds like you are
saying it no longer has any purpose as a command, is that true?

​I goofed in a complementary way: I gave an answer about ispell-check-version, whose purpose is now (as far as I can see) to give the version of ​the spell-checker program (i.e. aspell, hunspell etc.) for use in bug reports, or other diagnostic purposes.

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