From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Andreas Schwab" <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Bug-Gnu-Emacs <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: No such program, egrep error in Customize
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:45:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICAEEDECAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je1w991d00.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
> > ispell-call-process("egrep" nil t nil "-i" "^blu.*$"
> "/usr/dict/words")
>
> Set ispell-grep-command to the name of the egrep program.
Right. It is - but not in emacs -Q.
I think the error message for Customize should say something more
user-friendly, in any case. If the user tries to complete some text (a
word), it should say why it can't do so at a higher level than a "searching
for program" error.
And why not have a fallback word/text-completion function that doesn't
depend on having ispell installed? Dabbrev, for instance - it might not be
that useful, but it could be better than nothing.
Or at least put the ispell part in a condition-case so the second `or'
branch can get tried, to pick up `lisp-complete-symbol'.
Anyway, I found the problem I had - see my other mail. Thx for your prompt
reply.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-26 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-26 18:32 No such program, egrep error in Customize Drew Adams
2007-12-26 18:54 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-26 19:18 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-26 19:45 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-12-26 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-26 19:18 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-26 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-26 20:02 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-26 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-26 19:53 ` Drew Adams
2007-12-29 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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