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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: andremegafone@gmail.com, 50852@debbugs.gnu.org,
	Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:11:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilylfcvt.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8335ppkzc1.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 28 Sep 2021 09:07:26 +0300")

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> In this case, why not simply have the value as "look" with no leading
> directories?  If the program is installed, it will be found when it's
> invoked, and if it isn't installed, the user gets an error message at
> that time.

That's a good point.  And the ispell-look-p variable is itself rather
odd -- why have both ispell-look-command and that variable (with a
non-standard name)?

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-28  6:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-27 18:45 bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program André A. Gomes
2021-09-27 23:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28  6:07   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28  6:11     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-09-28  7:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-28  8:41         ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-28  9:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-30 16:09           ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-28  8:32   ` André A. Gomes
2021-09-28 11:06     ` Stefan Kangas
2022-09-02 11:35       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28  5:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-28  9:02   ` André A. Gomes

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