From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46778b23$1_1@mk-nntp-2.news.uk.tiscali.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1182266990 9925 80.91.229.12 (19 Jun 2007 15:29:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:29:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 19 17:29:49 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I0feP-0002Xf-3A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:29:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0feO-0001Z0-Jv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0feA-0001Yd-5u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I0fe6-0001Xx-O3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I0fe6-0001Xp-Dj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0fe6-0002Di-4L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I0fe5-0004Vk-W8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:29:30 -0400 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) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45169 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:52:10 +0100 > From: David R > 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