RE: A question about spellchecker

[arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com>]

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> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2014 19:27:51 +0300
> From: eliz@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: A question about spellchecker
> To: agustin.martin@hispalinux.es
> CC: arthur.miller@live.com; emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 19:39:41 +0300
> > From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> > Cc: arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> > 
> > > You should not need this at all. emacs24 should auto-detect available
> > > hunspell dictionaries and offer them as possible choices when calling
> > > `ispell-change-dictionary', doing proper communication in UTF-8 and using
> > > [:alpha:] as you do for english (change that in your .emacs and see what
> > > happens). 
> > 
> > The Windows binary from ezwinports doesn't yet comply with the
> > semantics of the -D switch that is required for what you describe.  I
> > will probably fix that some time soon.
> 
> Done.  People who use Hunspell on Windows may wish to download the
> latest binaries, and then you can remove the hacking of
> ispell-dictionary-alist and ispell-local-dictionary-alist from your
> .emacs.
> 

That was fast! Great work.

Always cool to keep .emacs short.

Now - I have one question. Is it possible to pass name of dictionary instead of renaming
.dic and .aff files?

The reason: I belieave it is much easier to instruct people how to pass name of a file to
Emacs, than how to find what locale their Emacs or system use :). 

Furthermore, what if we wish to use two languages == two dictionaries. How to 
specify for ispell-change-dictionary if dictionaries are not set in list. Does hunspell
enumerate all dictionaries in folder? 

For example there is a list of country names and codes in rw-language-and-country-codes.el.
Any chance to use it and automate so users don't have to be instructed to rename dictionary
files?
 		 	   		  

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