Re: Ispell and unibyte characters

[Andreas Schwab]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:18:21 +0200
>> From: Agustin Martin <address@hidden>
>> 
>> > OTHERCHARS are not very important anyway, at least for languages I'm
>> > interested in.
>> > 
>> > > Since currently it is not possible to ask hunspell for installed
>> > > dictionaries (hunspell -D does not return control to the console)
>> > > no one tried something similar for hunspell.
>> > 
>> > In what version do you have problems with -D?
>> 
>> Hunspell 1.3.2. Does not return control until I press ^C. This may be useful
>> if someone wants to know about installed hunspell dictionaries and prepare
>> something to play with that info, in a way similar to what is currently done
>> for aspell in ispell.el.
>
> Well, to be fair to the Hunspell developers, the documentation doesn't
> say that -D should exit after displaying the available dictionaries.
> And the code really doesn't do that.  However, with a simple 2-liner
> (below) I can make it do what you want.

You can just redirect from /dev/null instead.

Andreas.

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