From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: ispell/aspell misalignment Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:04:21 +0000 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <5dy98gg7fv.fsf@ast.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036092000 2577 80.91.224.249 (31 Oct 2002 19:20:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:20:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@is.elta.co.il, starback@ling.uu.se, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187KrE-0000fH-00 for ; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:19:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187Krk-00053X-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:20:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187KcG-0007CQ-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 187KcE-0007C7-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:04:28 -0500 Original-Received: from rose.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.13]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187KcC-0007Bp-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 14:04:24 -0500 Original-Received: from cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.69.186]) by rose.csi.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187KcA-0006TY-00; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:04:22 +0000 Original-Received: from ast.cam.ac.uk (IDENT:ME2Av3W+2bEEb6oOcXQO+QSeYHMBE11l@xpc21 [131.111.69.55]) by cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk (8.12.2+Sun/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9VJ4Luo029485; Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:04:21 GMT Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Attribution: GM Mail-Followup-To: rms@gnu.org, eliz@is.elta.co.il, starback@ling.uu.se, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 32 User-Agent: Gnus, GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/directory/emacs.html) Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:3802 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:3802 Richard Stallman wrote: > Anyway, just for the record, while I get the same error with aspell > .33.7.1 alpha, the latest version of aspell, namely 0.50.2, works > fine. > > In that case, all we need to do is document it in etc/PROBLEMS. > Would someone like to write an entry? I would be happy to (PROBLEMS already suggests upgrading Ispell, but not Aspell), but, having just tried a more thorough spell-check test, I'm not so sure. Aspell 0.50.2 called via Emacs certainly performs correctly in the simple test case in the original bug report, and Aspell .33.7.1 alpha certainly fails with the misalignment error. I have just tried spell-checking a large LaTeX document from Emacs using both versions of Aspell. The new version does not seem to spell-check the whole document: if I add a deliberate mistake near the end and run `ispell-buffer', the error is not found. No errors from Emacs, just a "Spell-checking done" message. The spell check seems to finish too quickly for the whole document to have been checked. If I use `ispell-region' on a small region around the error, or use the old Aspell, the mistake is found. It's surely worse if a spell-check silently misses mistakes, rather than throwing up a "misalignment" error - at least that can be worked around (to some extent) with ispell-region. So I don't know if it's good to recommend upgrading Aspell. Maybe I haven't compiled the new Aspell version properly, or something, but in all other respects it seems OK.