From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell) Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:51:34 +0300 Message-ID: <83d0hukya1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87k1c2cv77.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> <83h876kzv1.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="20669"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 24050@debbugs.gnu.org, olejorgenb@gmail.com To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 28 16:52:11 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWw-0005G5-F1 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:52:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45500 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWu-0007SJ-M8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:52:08 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48570) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWp-0007S7-6t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:52:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWo-0007Ed-7i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:52:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:38146) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWo-0007Dg-4U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:52:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWo-0004Yt-23 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:52:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 24050 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: fixed Original-Received: via spool by 24050-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B24050.156432551917526 (code B ref 24050); Sun, 28 Jul 2019 14:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 24050) by debbugs.gnu.org; 28 Jul 2019 14:51:59 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46967 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWl-0004Yb-4l for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:51:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:36183) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWj-0004YN-Cy for 24050@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:51:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57322) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWe-0006qm-66; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:51:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1461 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hrkWd-0006GX-LO; Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:51:52 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 28 Jul 2019 16:25:39 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:163964 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > 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.