Re: flyspell bug

[Juri Linkov]

>> To: address@hidden
>> From: Magnus Henoch <address@hidden>
>> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 16:04:45 +0200
>> Subject: Re: flyspell bug
>> 
>> So it seems that the variable ispell-really-aspell is moderately
>> useful, as there are three situations: ispell, aspell in ispell
>> compatibility mode, and "real" aspell.
>> 
>> The following patch eliminates the middle case.  The documentation of
>> aspell 0.50.5 claims that it supports the "list" command, but I
>> haven't tested it.
>> 
>> - --- orig/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
>> +++ mod/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
>> @@ -301,7 +301,8 @@
>>    :type 'integer
>>    :group 'ispell)
>>  
>> - -(defcustom ispell-program-name "ispell"
>> +(defcustom ispell-program-name (or (executable-find "aspell")
>> +                               "ispell")
>>    "Program invoked by \\[ispell-word] and \\[ispell-region] commands."
>>    :type 'string
>>    :group 'ispell)
>
> Thanks, I installed a slightly different change (using locate-file
> instead of executable-find).

Now with using a non-default dictionary ispell.el fails with the
error message telling that ispell can't find a dictionary in
/usr/lib/aspell-0.60/.  That's becuase ispell and aspell have
different sets of dictionaries with different names.

ispell.el shouldn't insist on using "aspell" instead of "ispell"
even when aspell executable happens to be in exec-path.
Perhaps the following patch will do what was intended to fix the
original problem:

Index: lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el,v
retrieving revision 1.162
diff -u -r1.162 ispell.el
--- lisp/textmodes/ispell.el    7 May 2005 16:04:39 -0000       1.162
+++ lisp/textmodes/ispell.el    10 May 2005 00:05:05 -0000
@@ -302,7 +302,8 @@
   :group 'ispell)
 
 (defcustom ispell-program-name
-  (or (locate-file "aspell" exec-path exec-suffixes 'file-executable-p)
+  (or (and ispell-really-aspell
+          (locate-file "aspell" exec-path exec-suffixes 'file-executable-p))
       "ispell")
   "Program invoked by \\[ispell-word] and \\[ispell-region] commands."
   :type 'string
@@ -815,7 +816,11 @@
         (goto-char (point-min))
         (let (case-fold-search)
           (setq ispell-really-aspell
-                (and (search-forward "(but really Aspell " nil t) t))))
+                (and (search-forward "(but really Aspell " nil t) t))
+         (if ispell-really-aspell
+             (let ((exec (locate-file "aspell" exec-path exec-suffixes
+                                      'file-executable-p)))
+               (if exec (setq ispell-program-name exec))))))
       (kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
     result))
 
-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/