From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6539: ispell-complete-word looks for wrong file (at least on w32) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:35:35 +0300 Message-ID: <836310bezc.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20100630103826.GA3847@agmartin.aq.upm.es> <20100630122747.GA20074@agmartin.aq.upm.es> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277920779 11568 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2010 17:59:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6539@debbugs.gnu.org To: Agustin Martin Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 30 19:59:38 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU1ZR-0005od-5i for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:59:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OU1ZQ-0001h9-HT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40326 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OU1ZJ-0001gt-U4 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU1ZH-00066b-H6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:30 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:54240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU1ZH-00066X-Fm for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU1Af-0000nj-NO; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:34:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:34:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6539 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6539-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6539.12779192183069 (code B ref 6539); Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:34:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6539) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jun 2010 17:33:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU1AH-0000nS-Ow for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:33:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU1AF-0000nN-L5 for 6539@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:33:36 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L4U00E008I9BE00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 6539@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:33:30 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.229.12.240]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L4U003868RSU6P0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:33:29 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <20100630122747.GA20074@agmartin.aq.upm.es> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:34:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:38145 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:27:47 +0200 > From: Agustin Martin > Cc: > > > > I think that this bug report can be closed or renamed to something like > > > 'Improve `ispell-alternate-dictionary' docstring'. > > > > I think the default for ispell-alternate-dictionary should be changed on w32. > > Or, more globally, find a good and not confusing name for default personal > plain wordlist that can be used in every system, be it w32 or not, so it is > tried first in `ispell-alternate-dictionary', something like > > (expand-file-name "~/.personal.words") How will that help, exactly? /usr/dict/words exists on almost every Posix system, which is why ispell.el has that as the default. But there's no comparable functionality on Windows, so the only way of getting this work on Windows is to find or download such a file from somewhere, and manually install it in some arbitrary directory. How is Emacs supposed to know whether such a file exists, and where?