From: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: alex.branham@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, k.stevens@ieee.org,
38583@debbugs.gnu.org, zappo@gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#38583: [PATCH] 27.0.50; Add unattended spell-checking to checkdoc
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:51:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8vu7zqp.fsf@cassou.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mubw6lpb.fsf@gnu.org>
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Hi Eli,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> > What happens if none of the spellers supported by ispell.el is
>> > installed on the user's system?
>>
>> Starting new Ispell process ispell with default dictionary... \
>> Buffer xxx has no process
>>
>> Emacs exit status is 255 in this case.
>
> Can we check this up front, and display some user-friendly message to
> the effect that spell-checking cannot be done?
Here is an additional patch for the series to answer your request.
If you believe the patch series is too large to be reviewed, I can split
it in several smaller ones.
--
Damien Cassou
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
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From 754a6ed8e9bbe7dd46e0d4595d8e46b76dc5b606 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damien Cassou <damien@cassou.me>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 12:48:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Improve error message when no spellchecker can be found
* lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el: Throw error when (checkdoc-ispell-init)
fails configuring ispell.
---
lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el
index 3e6542bc80..0269b89790 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/checkdoc.el
@@ -2127,6 +2127,9 @@ checkdoc-ispell-docstring-engine
(and checkdoc-autofix-flag
(not (eq checkdoc-autofix-flag 'never)))))
(checkdoc-ispell-init)
+ (unless checkdoc-spellcheck-documentation-flag
+ ;; this happens when (checkdoc-ispell-init) can't start `ispell-program-name'
+ (user-error "No spellchecker installed: check the variable `ispell-program-name'."))
(save-excursion
(skip-chars-forward "^a-zA-Z")
(let (word sym case-fold-search err word-beginning word-end)
--
2.24.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-27 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-12 21:26 bug#38583: [PATCH] 27.0.50; Add unattended spell-checking to checkdoc Damien Cassou
2019-12-13 9:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-13 19:53 ` Damien Cassou
2019-12-13 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 11:51 ` Damien Cassou [this message]
2019-12-27 14:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-27 14:43 ` Damien Cassou
2020-01-11 11:49 ` Damien Cassou
2020-01-11 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-13 5:19 ` Damien Cassou
2020-01-16 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-16 21:07 ` Damien Cassou
2020-01-17 7:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-17 9:06 ` Damien Cassou
2020-01-17 9:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-01-17 10:35 ` Damien Cassou
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