Re: ispell and (lookup-words ...)

[Jason Earl]

Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:

> chad brown <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> If you don't even have a /usr/share/dict/words file, then I'd say that 
>> Debian has evolved out from under emacs-ispell -- most systems I use 
>> still have such (although mostly under the just-mentioned path).
>
> That seems a shame since lookup-words is used in ispell-complete.
>
> I can't see anything in ispell that would allow for completion.
>

Try installing wamerican or wamerican-large (or wbritish etc.).
That's the package that provided /usr/share/dict/words on my Debian
unstable system.

Jason