From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
Cc: 61190@debbugs.gnu.org, opngid@gmail.com
Subject: bug#61190: 28.2; ispell personal dictionary location for hunspell engine
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:31:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83edr9z18k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86h6w5eose.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:58:17 +0200)
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Cc: opngid@gmail.com, 61190@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:58:17 +0200
>
> > I looked into the Hunspell's sources, and I think I know why this
> > happens. Hunspell has a peculiar logic when looking for the personal
> > dictionary. The outcome of that peculiar logic is that if Hunspell is
> > invoked with "-p PDICT" command-line argument, and PDICT is an
> > absolute file name, that file must already exist, or else Hunspell
> > will decide it cannot use it. And Emacs always invokes Hunspell with
> > an absolute file name of the personal dictionary.
> >
> > This is arguably a bug in Hunspell, but a workaround is to create an
> > empty file at the location where you want the personal dictionary to
> > be, and then restart the speller.
>
> This bug exists even on GNU/Linux, so requires such customization:
>
> (unless (file-exists-p "~/.hunspell")
> (shell-command "touch ~/.hunspell"))
> (setq ispell-personal-dictionary "~/.hunspell")
Yes, the code which does that in Hunspell is not Windows-specific.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-01 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-31 0:53 bug#61190: 28.2; ispell personal dictionary location for hunspell engine O G
2023-01-31 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-01-31 15:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CAEc003eWkHFf2Ta1vJfEFQjXJPS9=xB0doRUP+HedcbuNuPPSQ@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-01 3:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-01 5:58 ` O G
2023-02-01 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-11 17:07 ` O G
2023-02-11 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-11 18:16 ` O G
2023-02-11 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-11 19:19 ` O G
2023-02-12 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-12 12:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-02-01 17:58 ` Juri Linkov
2023-02-01 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-07-02 19:19 ` bug#61190: follow-up on ispell-personal-dictionary issue for hunspell O G
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