From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: flyspell bug Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 02:00:28 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8764x7dyis.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117087554 29238 80.91.229.2 (26 May 2005 06:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 06:05:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: kevina@gnu.org, public@heslin.eclipse.co.uk, mange@freemail.hu, s.j.eglen@damtp.cam.ac.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 26 08:05:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBUw-0006rg-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 08:05:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBYw-0001ob-Ck for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:09:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBSk-0006mB-GS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:03:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBSi-0006le-HL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:03:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DbBSi-0006lT-4e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:03:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DbBQl-00028K-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:01:19 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1DbBPw-000460-En; Thu, 26 May 2005 02:00:28 -0400 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-reply-to: <8764x7dyis.fsf@jurta.org> (message from Juri Linkov on Wed, 25 May 2005 19:48:11 +0300) 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:37670 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37670 To avoid such failure, ispell.el could check the Aspell's exit code and in case when Aspell can't find a dictionary name among its list of available dictionaries, ispell.el could change the default program name from "aspell" to "ispell" and try to run Ispell with the same dictionary name. That is an ugly temporary workaround. What I would rather do is give a clear error message that points the user at the ways to reconfigure.