Re: flyspell bug

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Wed, 25 May 2005, Juri Linkov wrote:

> >     If you use "-d DICT" where DICT does NOT end in ".hash" or is a 
> > complete 
> >     path to an Ispell dictionary than it should work as you suggested.
> >
> > If this already works, how come the problem happens?
> > Why doesn't this make everything work right already?
> 
> Users may have different sets of dictionaries installed for Ispell
> and Aspell.  After replacing the default program name "ispell" by
> "aspell", ispell.el may fail when a configured Ispell's dictionary
> name doesn't match any of installed Aspell dictionary names.
> 
> To avoid such failure, ispell.el could check the Aspell's exit code
> and in case when Aspell can't find a dictionary name among its list
> of available dictionaries, ispell.el could change the default program
> name from "aspell" to "ispell" and try to run Ispell with the same
> dictionary name.

Most Aspell dictionaries are installed with names that the orignal Ispell 
dictionarys use.  Just make sure it isn't a complete path or the name 
doesn't end if ".hash".

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