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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Van Ly <van.ly@sdf.org>
Cc: 62775@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62775: 29.0.60; C-M-i or ispell-complete-word experiences "lookup-words error"
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:29:30 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mt3ea6o5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202304111248.33BCmDfa018789@sdf.org> (message from Van Ly on Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:48:13 GMT)

> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:48:13 GMT
> From: Van Ly <van.ly@sdf.org>
> 
> M-$ or ispell-word works by default but C-M-i or ispell-complete-word fails.
> 
> Steps to reproduce the error
>  - emacs -Q
>  - C-x b xxx
>  - M-x text-mode
>  +
>  - type "ju"
>  - C-M-i ;;=> causes the echo area to say the following
> 
> > ispell-lookup-words: lookup-words error: No plain word-list found at
> > systemdefault locations.  Customize ‘ispell-alternate-dictionary’ to
> > set yours.
> 
> The unexpected behavior is the above error shown in the *Messages* buffer.

What is your value of ispell-alternate-dictionary?  I'm guessing it's
nil, in which case the error message tells you what to do.

I don't know whether modern Posix systems have a word-list file in
some standard location installed; if they do, and that place is not
looked up by the initialization of ispell-alternate-dictionary, we
could add those other places to the list of standard locations.  But
if the word-list file is generally not installed, then I think the
error message is to be expected.

I've now added the fact that a word-list file is necessary for
ispell-complete-word to work to the command's doc string.  I don't
think we should or can do anything else about it.





  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-11 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-11 12:48 bug#62775: 29.0.60; C-M-i or ispell-complete-word experiences "lookup-words error" Van Ly
2023-04-11 13:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2023-04-11 15:31   ` Van Ly
2023-04-11 15:45     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-11 18:02       ` Van Ly
2023-04-11 18:39         ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-11 22:50         ` Agustin Martin
2023-04-12  6:08           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-04-15 17:51             ` Van Ly
2023-04-15 18:01               ` Eli Zaretskii

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