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bug#17316: 24.3.90; Ispell doesn't support Hunspell's "multiple dictiona
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#17316: 24.3.90; Ispell doesn't support Hunspell's "multiple dictionaries" feature |
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Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:31:06 +0300 |
> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:15:06 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> This is more a missing feature than a bug.
>
> According to Hunspell's man page:
>
> -d dict,dict2,...
> Set dictionaries by their base names with or without paths.
> Example of the syntax:
>
> -d en_US,en_geo,en_med,de_DE,de_med
>
> en_US and de_DE are base dictionaries, they consist of aff and dic file
> pairs: en_US.aff, en_US.dic and de_DE.aff, de_DE.dic. En_geo, en_med,
> de_med are special dictionaries: dictionaries without affix file.
>
> (This seems to say that you can spell-check text that mixes English
> and German words, but that's a lie: Hunspell actually uses only the
> first .aff file and disregards the rest.) This feature is useful for
> combining general dictionary with several specialized dictionaries.
> But ispell.el does not support this feature: it only allows specifying
> a single dictionary at the prompt of ispell-change-dictionary, and
> insists on getting one of the strings it collected from the output of
> "hunspell -D" (and it looks like dictionaries without matching affix
> files are filtered out of the list).
>
> It would be nice to have more freedom in specifying the arguments to
> the -d switch.
Fixed as part of bug#20495.
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