From: Jason Earl <jearl@xmission.com>
Cc: chad brown <y@MIT.EDU>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ispell and (lookup-words ...)
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 17:50:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877jkjhsfb.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ll8zoyh8.fsf@tapsellferrier.co.uk> (Nic Ferrier's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:57:55 +0000")
Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:
> chad brown <y@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>> 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).
>
> That seems a shame since lookup-words is used in ispell-complete.
>
> I can't see anything in ispell that would allow for completion.
>
Try installing wamerican or wamerican-large (or wbritish etc.).
That's the package that provided /usr/share/dict/words on my Debian
unstable system.
Jason
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 0:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-07 22:06 ispell and (lookup-words ...) Nic Ferrier
2005-03-07 22:56 ` chad brown
2005-03-07 22:57 ` Nic Ferrier
2005-03-08 0:50 ` Jason Earl [this message]
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