egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

[David R]

Hi
if I try M-x ispell-complete-word-inferior-frac I get the message which 
is the subject title of this thread
If I do M-x ispell-change-dictionary emacs lists about 20 possible 
completions

What is happening?
Is this a bug in ispell which I am using via aspell (setq-default 
ispell-program-name "aspell")
How can I tell emacs to make ispell-complete-word-inferior-frac look in 
the same dictionaries which ispell-change-dictionary looks at?
How can I discover where ispell-change-dictionary looks?

thanks
david R

Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 19.06.2007 um 09:52 schrieb David R:

> What is happening?

The value of variable ispell-alternate-dictionary is being used to  
complete words.

--
Greetings

   Pete

Globalisation -- communism from above.

Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 08:52:10 +0100
> From: David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> 
> if I try M-x ispell-complete-word-inferior-frac I get the message which 
> is the subject title of this thread
> If I do M-x ispell-change-dictionary emacs lists about 20 possible 
> completions
> 
> What is happening?

This feature needs a list of words, and its default location is
/usr/dict/words.

> How can I tell emacs to make ispell-complete-word-inferior-frac look in 
> the same dictionaries which ispell-change-dictionary looks at?

You can't, AFAIK: ispell-complete-word needs an ASCII list of words,
not a hashed dictionary used for spell-checking.

I suggest to look on the Internet for a list of words, download it and
put it in the directory where ispell.el expects it.  One place where
you can find such a list is here:

  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/wordlist

Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

[David R]

yes this worked thanks
Unfortunately egrep seems to run via a windows cmd shell

My cygwin shell can do a "cd /usr/dict"

Unfortunately the cmd shell need a "cd c:\cygwin\usr\dict"

So I have had to put the words list in a file called words located at 
c:\usr\dict
This approach is far from satisfactory but works

Is there any way I tell tell emacs to use egrep through a cygwin shell 
not a cmd shell?

David R

Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:54:07 +0100
> From: David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>
> 
> Is there any way I tell tell emacs to use egrep through a cygwin shell 
> not a cmd shell?

Try customizing shell-file-name.

Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

[David R]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:54:07 +0100
>> From: David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>
>>
>> Is there any way I tell tell emacs to use egrep through a cygwin shell 
>> not a cmd shell?
> 
> Try customizing shell-file-name.
> 
> 
I have tried for an hour now
(custom-set-variables
   ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  '(pr-gs-command "c:\\Program Files\\gs\\gs8.56\\bin\\gswin32c.exe")
  '(pr-gv-command "C:\\Program Files\\Ghostgum\\gsview\\gsview32.exe")
  '(ps-paper-type "a4")
  '(w32shell-add-emacs-to-path nil)
  '(w32shell-cygwin-bin "C:\\cygwin\\bin")
  '(w32shell-dynamic-complete-sync-dirs t)
  '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin")
  '(w32shell-shell (quote cygwin) nil nil "this was cygwin and egrep 
used dos path .now is cmd"))
(custom-set-faces
   ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
   ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
   ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
   ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
  )
(require 'w32shell)
(setq shell-file-name "cygwin")
(setq w32shell-set-shell "cygwin")


yet still in the <tools> menu <w32 shells> are listed in the following 
order
cmd
cygwin
msys

Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:48:35 +0100
> From: David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:54:07 +0100
> >> From: David R <angel_ov_north@tiscali.co.uk>
> >>
> >> Is there any way I tell tell emacs to use egrep through a cygwin shell 
> >> not a cmd shell?
> > 
> > Try customizing shell-file-name.
> > 
> > 
> I have tried for an hour now
> (custom-set-variables
>    ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
>    ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>    ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>    ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>   '(pr-gs-command "c:\\Program Files\\gs\\gs8.56\\bin\\gswin32c.exe")
>   '(pr-gv-command "C:\\Program Files\\Ghostgum\\gsview\\gsview32.exe")
>   '(ps-paper-type "a4")
>   '(w32shell-add-emacs-to-path nil)
>   '(w32shell-cygwin-bin "C:\\cygwin\\bin")
>   '(w32shell-dynamic-complete-sync-dirs t)
>   '(w32shell-msys-bin "C:\\msys\\1.0\\bin")
>   '(w32shell-shell (quote cygwin) nil nil "this was cygwin and egrep 
> used dos path .now is cmd"))
> (custom-set-faces
>    ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
>    ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
>    ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
>    ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
>   )
> (require 'w32shell)
> (setq shell-file-name "cygwin")
> (setq w32shell-set-shell "cygwin")
> 
> 
> yet still in the <tools> menu <w32 shells> are listed in the following 
> order
> cmd
> cygwin
> msys

Sorry, I cannot help you further: I don't use Cygwin tools.

I can only say that a native Windows port of egrep works just fine
there.

Re: egrep error: egrep: /usr/dict/words: No such file or directory

[David R]

ok thanks.  I'll just have to use it as it is.