Re: ispell-dictionaries: Different Linuxes, different names :(

[Colin S. Miller]

Christian Herenz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have to use different workstations, where different linux flavours are 
> installed. The problem is, that different distros do different stuff. 
> For example, the ispell dictionary for german (reformed-spelling) is 
> called "german-new" in debian, in opensuse it is "german".
>
> In my .emacs I used as a discriminator the workstations name, but this 
> is not very efficient if you are working on more than two stations.
>
> Is there a way to discriminate different distros in .emacs? Especially 
> "opensuse" and "debian"...
>
> Greetings,
> Christian
Christian,

In Debian, the file /etc/debian_version will exist.

On Debian-derived systems, the file /etc/apt/sources.list will almost certainly 
exist.

Likewise on RedHat based systems (and any other systems that use yum),
/etc/yum.conf wil exist.

For YaST based systems including SuSE, /etc/yast/control.xml will exist, AFAIK.
I don't have access to a SuSE based system to verify this.




The other way to check what the best dictionary is to check for
/usr/lib/aspell/<dictionary-name>
or
/usr/lib/ispell/<dictionary-name>.hash

Or have aspell/ispell check it for you by examining the return code of
ispell -d<dictionary-name> -e < /dev/null
aspell -d<dictionary-name> -a < /dev/null



HTH,
Colin S. Miller






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