From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: flyspell bug Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:28:45 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <877ji5vypt.fsf@jurta.org> References: <01c5531e$Blat.v2.4$ea8d9a00@zahav.net.il> <87zmv3rg09.fsf_-_@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115875963 27038 80.91.229.2 (12 May 2005 05:32:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 05:32:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: s.j.eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk, mange@freemail.hu, public@heslin.eclipse.co.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 12 07:32:42 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW6J4-00075Z-FN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 07:32:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW6Rx-0007KC-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DW6R6-0006h0-7l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:40:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DW6R4-0006gN-9C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DW6R4-0006eN-4R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:40:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.126.101.98] (helo=MXR-8.estpak.ee) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DW6Qh-00016V-A2; Thu, 12 May 2005 01:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.neti.ee (80-235-35-225-dsl.mus.estpak.ee [80.235.35.225]) by MXR-8.estpak.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id A49C15D14C; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:33:24 +0300 (EEST) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 11 May 2005 12:29:07 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) (Debian) at neti.ee 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37010 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37010 > ispell.el shouldn't insist on using "aspell" instead of "ispell" > even when aspell executable happens to be in exec-path. > > Of course it should. aspell is a GNU package. > > What led you to think the contrary? I had the impression that the intention was to fix a problem of using aspell with ispell.el. However, the installed change is too radical. It affects all users of ispell having aspell in exec-path. If switching from ispell to aspell was intentional (I can't find a discussion about this on emacs-devel) then we need to document it in the NEWS file with a warning about possible problems, to inform maintainers of ispell.el and aspell about this change asking them to update documentation, web pages, and to test aspell dictionaries to confirm their compatibility with ispell.el. But perhaps switching from ispell to aspell was too hasty change. According to aspell's TODO list, ispell.el is not quite ready for using aspell. The Info node (info "(aspell)Important Items") has: Things that need to be done --------------------------- * Enhance *ispell.el* so that it will work better with GNU Aspell. _[In Progress]_. I don't know what is the current status of this TODO item. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/