I added aspell spell check to a simple program of mine. That is getting me thinking about the config keyword that are the base for data-dir and dict-dir. Most Windows programs put their data in the "Program Files" folder. Personal data goes under "My Documents". "Program files" or "My Documents" can be renamed or moved around. Aspell doesn't have anything that I can use to setup a master config file that will fine those folders. There are functions that I can call to find those directories, but I need a hook so that I can call them.
I submitted a patch to add an install-dir keyword, the default value is to call a function to find where the executable is. I hope that it is accepted. Now I'm thinking about a personal dir. It looks like the Unix version defaults to $HOME or cwd. And the Windows version sets up a default prefix which is "aspell-win32" which is a relative path, relative to the cwd. I'd like something closer to $HOME. There is a shell lib function to retrieve that folder name, but I would have to modify the default value of home-dir to do it properly. What do people think? Is the value of getting a better default home-dir worth the disruption of changing the default behavior from one version of aspell to the next? _______________________________________________ Aspell-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/aspell-devel
