From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 24050@debbugs.gnu.org, olejorgenb@gmail.com
Subject: bug#24050: 24.5; ispell-change-dictionary suggests non-existent dicts (aspell)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 17:17:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83h876kzv1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k1c2cv77.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:25:16 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 12:25:16 +0200
> Cc: 24050@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Thanks for the analysis; altering the code along these lines does fix
> the problem, and `M-x ispell-change-dictionary' now seems a lot more
> useful now that it just lists the dictionaries I actually have
> installed.
>
> > I would suggest simply removing [1] and not add the *base-alist above when using
> > aspell/hunspell, but the following comment makes it seem like the "invalid"
> > entries are added intentionally:
> >
> > ;; Substitute ispell-dictionary-alist with the list of
> > ;; dictionaries corresponding to the given spellchecker.
> > ;; If a recent aspell or hunspell, use the list of really
> > ;; installed dictionaries and add to it elements of the original
> > ;; list that are not present there*. Allow distro info.
>
> It may be intentional, but the other comments seem to indicate that it's
> not... and I don't see the utility of listing dictionaries we don't
> have, so I think it's a good change anyway.
>
> So I've made it on the Emacs trunk now.
I think this is a mistake, and should be reverted. It prevents users
from telling ispell.el to switch to a dictionary that aspell/hunspell
didn't return in the list. That's a regression.
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-28 14:17 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 [this message]
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
2022-02-21 16:01 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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