From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 25230@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25230: Patch to ispell.el to simplify use of [:alpha:] for CASECHARS in built-in dictionaries
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 21:45:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOnWdoiXbcueJx_rqLzWQ0qO86WX82+2t7P9SK6vzeqdrmWF4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83eg122xzf.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 20 December 2016 at 19:37, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 18:42:05 +0000
> > Cc: 25230@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > No, because my patch does not change the current behaviour of the
> code. The assumption that
> > [:alpha:] is OK to use here instead of A-Za-z is already in the code.
> >
> > Can you point out where in the code you see that assumption?
> >
> > The current code in about line 1300 (ispell-set-spellchecker-params)
> unconditionally overrides all the built-in
> > dictionaries' values for casechars and not-casechars with [:alpha:] in
> the loop that starts
> >
> > (dolist (adict ispell-dictionary-alist) …)
>
> That's the place where you suggested to keep the original values. I
> thought there were other places, but it's good to know there are none.
>
I believe not, indeed.
> I think so, but we should make sure the hard-wired values work with
> > Aspell, before we make that change. If they don't, we should provide
> > something that works for Aspell.
> >
> > I thought the hard-wired values were only for ispell dictionaries (for
> aspell, the dictionaries are searched for on
> > the computer)…
>
> But if we find that an installed dictionary is one of those in the
> data base of the hard-wired values, we use those values, right?
>
No, for aspell, we should only be using aspell dictionaries (found by
ispell-find-aspell-dictionaries).
> Because AFAIK Aspell provides only one of the 3 character sets we need
> in its dictionaries, the other 2 need to be somehow guessed or
> provided by the user.
>
They are guessed as [:alpha:], because we don't have better information
(that I know of).
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-19 12:28 bug#25230: Patch to ispell.el to simplify use of [:alpha:] for CASECHARS in built-in dictionaries Reuben Thomas
2016-12-19 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-19 21:17 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-20 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-20 18:42 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-20 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-20 21:45 ` Reuben Thomas [this message]
2016-12-21 0:20 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-21 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-21 17:31 ` Reuben Thomas
2016-12-21 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-21 22:33 ` Reuben Thomas
2019-06-24 23:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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