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From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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 19:58:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86h6w5eose.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83357q3fxv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 31 Jan 2023 17:02:36 +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")





  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-01 17:58 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 [this message]
2023-02-01 18:31       ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-07-02 19:19 ` bug#61190: follow-up on ispell-personal-dictionary issue for hunspell O G

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