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bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (a
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Agustin Martin |
Subject: |
bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell) |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:32:51 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 05:51:34PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> > Cc: olejorgenb@gmail.com, 24050@debbugs.gnu.org
> > Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:25:39 +0200
> >
> > > The OP's suggestion would make sense if the list created by that
> > > function was only used for completion. However, in fact we also force
> > > the user to specify a dictionary from the list, i.e. the selection
> > > must match one of the members of the list. So this change is for the
> > > worse.
> >
> > OK; I can revert, but I don't quite understand your objection. If you
> > choose a dictionary that's not in the list aspell/hunspell returned, the
> > next time you hit `M-$' you'll just get an error message.
>
> You assume that a dictionary not in the list doesn't exist; but that
> isn't a given. I've heard enough reports from users who for some
> reason or other bumped into situations where ispell.el couldn't figure
> out correctly what dictionaries are installed. The standard list
> (which is also customizable) leaves a "fire escape" for those cases.
IIRC the original discussion was in the thread starting with
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-10/msg00566.html
The problem was with aspell dicts not having .dat file, and the workaround
was to preserve default values. Not sure if code has been changed
afterwards.
--
Agustin
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/28
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/28
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/28
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/28
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/28
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/28
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/29
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/29
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2019/07/30
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell), Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/30
- bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell),
Agustin Martin <=