bug#25830: 25.2; ispell doesn't parse hunspell dictionaries properly

[Martin Kletzander]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 10:44:03PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2017 21:24:54 +0100
> > From: Martin Kletzander <mk@linux.com>
> > Cc: 25830@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > I have multiple dictionaries installed.  Hunspell finds all of them, but
> > selects *two* of them.  According to the man page, that is done
> > according to LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, and LANG environment variables.
>
> What are the values of those environment variables?

$ locale
LANG=en_GB.utf8
LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Honestly, I don't know where it takes the cs_CZ from, *but* if it
didn't, I would have to modify it so that it does.  Simply because
that's what I want it to do by default.

> > Becuase hunspell selects more of them (which is something I want it to
> > do), it lists both of them as "LOADED DICTIONARY", ispell parses those
> > (actually just lines ending with ".aff") and if it finds more than one,
> > it errors out.
>
> The way to run Hunspell with more than one dictionary is hinted upon
> in the doc string of the command ispell-hunspell-add-multi-dic.  After

If I try

 M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET en_GB,cs_CZ RET

I get the same error.

> you invoke that command and specify the dictionaries you want to use
> (e.g., in your case "en_GB,cs_CZ"), type this:
>
>  M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET en_GB,cs_CZ RET

M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET errors out with the same error.  If I
run it again, there are no dictionaries loaded, so I cannot use any
parameter for it except 'default'.

> Then try spell-checking.  It should work with that arrangement.  It is
> possible that you will first need to modify your environment variables
> to prevent Hunspell from loading more than one dictionary by default.

Why would I need to do that?  For me hunspell is working as I want it
to, exactly.

I honestly think that ispell should accept multiple dictionaries and
either behave like a multi-dic by default or just not error out when it
parses the second dictionary (less favourable option, though).  I would
love to add that functionality, but I'm not that familiar with the code,
unfortunately =(

Thanks,
Martin