From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: chad brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ispell and (lookup-words ...) Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:56:27 -0500 Message-ID: <1088b98913ac9ad4a1867b9f524a0816@mit.edu> References: <87psybp0v3.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110237120 25505 80.91.229.2 (7 Mar 2005 23:12:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 23:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 08 00:06:47 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8RJ4-0007Jv-1I for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 00:06:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8Rcr-0007lu-GL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:27:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D8RZ7-000676-Lt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:23:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8RYz-0005v8-3b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:23:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [18.7.7.80] (helo=biscayne-one-station.mit.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1D8R9V-0001gT-Sn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:56:42 -0500 Original-Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (OUTGOING-AUTH.MIT.EDU [18.7.22.103]) by biscayne-one-station.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.9.2) with ESMTP id j27MubRs018124; Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:56:40 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.101] (209-94-133-129.c3-0.bkl-ubr2.sbo-bkl.ma.cable.rcn.com [209.94.133.129]) (authenticated bits=0) (User authenticated as yandros@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id j27MuS0Z003736 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:56:28 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87psybp0v3.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> Original-To: Nic Ferrier X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) X-Spam-Score: -4.9 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34293 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34293 If you don't even have a /usr/share/dict/words file, then I'd say that Debian has evolved out from under emacs-ispell -- most systems I use still have such (although mostly under the just-mentioned path). *chad On 7 Mar, 2005, at 17:06, Nic Ferrier wrote: > in CVS emacs-ispell's lookup-words function is doing a grep on > /usr/dict/words. > > On my very up to date debian (testing) machine I don't have a > /usr/dict/words file. I don't even have a words file. I seem to have > lots of hash files but no textual words file. > > Is this a bug with debian or with emacs-ispell? > > > Nic