severity 243549 important thanks On Tue 13 Apr 2004 20:06 +0200, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > I tried to spell check a document in TeXmacs, and could not. It > reported that it could not find a dictionary for "english". Perhaps > there should be a symlink from "english" to "american"?
The symlink is still missing. On emacs-snapshot with auto-lang.el [1]
enabled:
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Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash")
signal(error ("Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash"))
error("%s" "Can't open /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash")
ispell-init-process()
<cut>
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And, obviously, /usr/lib/ispell/english.hash doesn't exist (not as a
symlink neither as a file). As soon as I manually create the link to
american.hash or british.hash ispell works smoothly.
A similar bug on SuSE is here [2] or on Debian, but general and not Emacs
specific, here [3].
IMHO the solution is a debconf option when installing both iamerican
or ibritish: you should choose the default english symlink (something
similar to xdm/gdm/kdm).
Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca
PS, severity to important because it's not a wishlist, but a real bug
and in some cases breaks flyspell.
[1] http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/AutoLangMode
[2] http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200509/msg00301.html
[3] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg29390.html
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages ispell depends on:
ii dictionaries-common 0.60.1 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii iamerican [ispell-dictionary] 3.1.20.0-4 An American English dictionary for
ii ibritish [ispell-dictionary] 3.1.20.0-4 A British English dictionary for i
ii ifrench [ispell-dictionary] 1.4-20 The French dictionary for ispell (
ii iitalian [ispell-dictionary] 1:2.3-1 The Italian dictionary for ispell
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.5-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
Versions of packages ispell recommends:
ii wamerican [wordlist] 5-4 American English dictionary words
ii wbritish [wordlist] 5-4 British English dictionary words f
ii wfrench [wordlist] 1.2.3-1 French dictionary words for /usr/s
ii witalian [wordlist] 1.7.3 The Italian dictionary words for /
-- no debconf information
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