On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Agustin Martin wrote: > On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 09:49:41PM +1100, Tim Connors wrote: > > Package: dictionaries-common > > Version: 0.90.0 > > Severity: normal > > > > As far as I can work out, dictionaries-common owns the symlinks in > > /usr/share/xemacs21/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ to flyspell.el etc. > > It is actually the .elc there what is loaded, but that should make no > difference
Hence the "etc" :) > > This links to a emacs version from 2007 that is unfortunately not > > completely compatible with xemacs. If I blast those links and the > > .elc files away, xemacs uses its own version from 2002, in > > /usr/share/xemacs21/xemacs-packages/lisp/text-modes/flyspell.elc > > from the xemacs21-basesupport package. > > The 2007 version is the one from emacs cvs patched to work with xemacs21 > and emacs21. While I tried to find all problems seems that some of them got > missed (e.g., #458806). > > > The symptoms of the incompatibility that I see are that flyspell-mode > > is no longer a minor mode. If I invoke M-x flyspell-mode, it invokes > > it for all buffers (including programs and shell scripts that are > > pointless to spell check, and flyspell-mode ends up invoking bogus > > font-locking on keywords). It even invokes it for commands and > > filenames I enter in the modeline. > > I can confirm this, but looking at the code, 2007 flyspell.el uses > (easy-mmode) define-minor-mode which, according to the documentation should > preserve the buffer-local character of the mode unless explicitly asked > otherwise. > > I will try to look at easy-mmode, in case I am missing something there. Of > course, since I am not fully familiar with the xemacs internals, help is > more than welcome. I'm unfamiliar with it. > > Please either remove the symlinks, or make this version work in > > xemacs, and get the xemacs21-basesupport maintainer to remove their > > version of flyspell. > > I am largely for making the version work everywhere if possible. While I > can always wrap the old definition into a huge (if (featurep 'xemacs) ... ) > I would prefer a cleaner fix. True. Once it is working everywhere though, should the version from xemacs21-basesupport be removed? Since keeping two copies only causes confusion when the user tries to work out why something isn't working. > Thanks for your report. Feel free to provide more feedback. I discovered the version in xemacs21-basesupport wasn't flawless either - the middle mouse clicking on a word in xemacs causes the same bug as this one: http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.emacs.xemacs/browse_thread/thread/15c106b449ef6e61/695d087c22202a47 I have taken flyspell.el (v 1.7n) from http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell.html and it seems to be working perfectly on debian, it having overridden the version in xemacs21-basesupport, and of course the one in dictionaries-common. I presume 1.7n from above is the ultimate upstream? I presume, from the changelog, that it also works with both emacs and xemacs? I haven't been able to find any bugs in it yet. -- TimC Probably best see a real doctor and not take too much diagnostic advice from a bunch of sysadmins who consider the body a meat computer that needs debugging. -- Anthony de Boer on possible nerve damage in ASR -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
