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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1I0fe5-0004Vk-W8@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46778b23$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> (message from David R on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:52:10 +0100)

> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:52:10 +0100
> From: David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> 
> if I try M-x ispell-complete-word-inferior-frac I get the message which 
> is the subject title of this thread
> If I do M-x ispell-change-dictionary emacs lists about 20 possible 
> completions
> 
> What is happening?

This feature needs a list of words, and its default location is
/usr/dict/words.

> How can I tell emacs to make ispell-complete-word-inferior-frac look in 
> the same dictionaries which ispell-change-dictionary looks at?

You can't, AFAIK: ispell-complete-word needs an ASCII list of words,
not a hashed dictionary used for spell-checking.

I suggest to look on the Internet for a list of words, download it and
put it in the directory where ispell.el expects it.  One place where
you can find such a list is here:

  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/wordlist

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-19 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-19  7:52 egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory David R
2007-06-19  9:09 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-06-19 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found] ` <mailman.2405.1182266976.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-19 21:54   ` David R
2007-06-20  3:09     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2418.1182308960.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-20  8:48       ` David R
2007-06-20 18:18         ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]         ` <mailman.2465.1182363499.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-06-20 20:25           ` David R

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