Re: ispell.el doesn't find all of aspell's dictionaries

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Juri Linkov wrote:

> I tested the patch and discovered several problems:
> 
> > +   (let ((dictionaries
> > +    (split-string
> > +     (with-temp-buffer
> > +       (call-process ispell-program-name nil t nil "dicts")
> 
> `aspell dicts' returns plain dictionary names like
> `en_GB-ize-w_accents', but misses readable aliases like `english'.
> Is it possible for aspell to return all aliases as well?

Aspell can't currently do that.  Adding an option to do so won't be 
difficult but it will involve an API change to the C API.  Most likely an 
additional function.  The other alternative would be to add another 
config options.  In any case it's not likely to appear until the next 
major version.

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