From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25107@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el)
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 21:58:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdohKgsW_Mb4SC+A_Mf+KYtq+QWD0Y8EcoDN1AM8i0YVhpA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83wpfcj3y7.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 6 December 2016 at 18:41, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> > Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 18:11:16 +0000
> > Cc: 25107@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > Or let me ask this: why does ispell-version at all exist? Perhaps I'm
> > confused about its purpose.
> >
> > My understanding is that it exists for reporting bugs in the
> combination of ispell.el and whatever spell checker
> > you are using. When ispell.el was distributed as third-party code, there
> were extra two useful pieces of
> > information: the version of the spell-checker program, and the version
> of ispell.el.
>
> Sorry, I goofed: I meant ispell-check-version, the command, when
> invoked interactively -- what is its purpose? It sounds like you are
> saying it no longer has any purpose as a command, is that true?
>
I goofed in a complementary way: I gave an answer about
ispell-check-version, whose purpose is now (as far as I can see) to give
the version of the spell-checker program (i.e. aspell, hunspell etc.) for
use in bug reports, or other diagnostic purposes.
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-04 17:10 bug#25107: Patches to clean up ispell.el Reuben Thomas
[not found] ` <handler.25107.B.148087148014808.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2016-12-04 22:11 ` bug#25107: Acknowledgement (Patches to clean up ispell.el) Reuben Thomas
2016-12-05 21:38 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-06 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-06 16:20 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-06 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-06 17:46 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-06 18:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-06 18:11 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-06 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-06 21:58 ` Reuben Thomas [this message]
2016-12-13 0:55 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-13 16:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 19:07 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-13 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-13 19:45 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-13 19:45 ` bug#25107: Reuben Thomas
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