From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] When spell binary not found, point to ispell Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:19 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y7azzkl1.fsf@grepfind.mwolson.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1199891568 16405 80.91.229.12 (9 Jan 2008 15:12:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 15:12:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Michael Olson , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 09 16:13:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JCcc5-0003o9-Au for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:13:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCcbh-0005od-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCcbe-0005oK-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:38 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JCcbd-0005nw-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JCcbd-0005nt-41 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:37 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JCcbO-0004yO-9f; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:22 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Ao8CAEtzhEfO+IQqdGdsb2JhbACQHAEwmTKBAA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.24,263,1196658000"; d="scan'208";a="12459504" Original-Received: from smtp.pppoe.ca ([65.39.196.238]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 09 Jan 2008 10:12:19 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([206.248.132.42]) by smtp.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ESMTP id PQV09320; Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:12:20 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 98B5D7F44; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 10:12:19 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:31:15 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:86645 Archived-At: > After receiving a bug report about the spell command not being found, I > wanted a nice way of redirecting new users towards ispell, which is more > likely installed on their systems. > Your patch is a good idea. But I wonder if we should go even further, > such as mark these spell.el commands obsolete, or make them aliases > for ispell.el commands. Indeed, I was thinking that spell.el should be moved to the `obsolete' subdir. Stefan