From: Agustin Martin <agustin6martin@gmail.com>
To: 24050@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, olejorgenb@gmail.com
Subject: bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 16:32:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190729143251.GA19151@agmartin.aq.upm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83d0hukya1.fsf@gnu.org>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-29 14:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-21 19:49 bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell) Ole Jørgen Brønner
2019-07-28 10:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-28 14:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-28 14:25 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-28 14:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-28 15:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-28 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 11:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-29 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-30 11:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-07-30 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-07-29 14:32 ` Agustin Martin [this message]
2022-02-21 16:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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