From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: RE: No such program, egrep error in Customize Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:45:56 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198698445 30476 80.91.229.12 (26 Dec 2007 19:47:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 19:47:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bug-Gnu-Emacs To: "Andreas Schwab" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 26 20:47:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J7cDu-00073M-Cq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:47:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J7cDZ-0005Ga-DE for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:47:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7cDT-0005Cn-5g for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:46:59 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J7cDR-00059V-L2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:46:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J7cDR-000598-9X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:46:57 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J7cDQ-0007DV-SO for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:46:57 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lBQJknpD032668; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:46:53 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lBQJknYh031872; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 12:46:49 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-65-104.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3463723961198698347; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:45:47 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17250 Archived-At: > > 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.