From: "Colin S. Miller" <no-spam-thank-you@csmiller.demon.co.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ispell-dictionaries: Different Linuxes, different names :(
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:22:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4aa3e1bb$0$290$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h80eqe$s7n$1@news.eternal-september.org>
Christian Herenz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to use different workstations, where different linux flavours are
> installed. The problem is, that different distros do different stuff.
> For example, the ispell dictionary for german (reformed-spelling) is
> called "german-new" in debian, in opensuse it is "german".
>
> In my .emacs I used as a discriminator the workstations name, but this
> is not very efficient if you are working on more than two stations.
>
> Is there a way to discriminate different distros in .emacs? Especially
> "opensuse" and "debian"...
>
> Greetings,
> Christian
Christian,
In Debian, the file /etc/debian_version will exist.
On Debian-derived systems, the file /etc/apt/sources.list will almost certainly exist.
Likewise on RedHat based systems (and any other systems that use yum),
/etc/yum.conf wil exist.
For YaST based systems including SuSE, /etc/yast/control.xml will exist, AFAIK.
I don't have access to a SuSE based system to verify this.
The other way to check what the best dictionary is to check for
/usr/lib/aspell/<dictionary-name>
or
/usr/lib/ispell/<dictionary-name>.hash
Or have aspell/ispell check it for you by examining the return code of
ispell -d<dictionary-name> -e < /dev/null
aspell -d<dictionary-name> -a < /dev/null
HTH,
Colin S. Miller
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2009-09-06 13:52 ispell-dictionaries: Different Linuxes, different names :( Christian Herenz
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