Stephen Eglen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Having looked at ispell.el, I don't think they are inconsistent; I > think the logic of ispell.el is that if ispell-program-name is > "ispell", it just checks the output of ispell -v: > > $ ispell -v > @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.5) > > and that parenthetic comment triggers ispell-really-aspell to t. > > I suggest we just fix flyspell to always use the -l flag in this case, > rather than "list".
I disagree. I was the one who asked for the change from -l to list in the first place, because it wouldn't work for me. The situation seems to be that your version of aspell installs a compatibility "ispell" command which supports the -l option meaning "list", while my version of aspell (0.60.2) doesn't install any such alias and only understands "list" when invoked as aspell. (-l specifies the language to use) So it seems that the variable ispell-really-aspell is moderately useful, as there are three situations: ispell, aspell in ispell compatibility mode, and "real" aspell. The following patch eliminates the middle case. The documentation of aspell 0.50.5 claims that it supports the "list" command, but I haven't tested it. --- orig/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el +++ mod/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el @@ -301,7 +301,8 @@ :type 'integer :group 'ispell) -(defcustom ispell-program-name "ispell" +(defcustom ispell-program-name (or (executable-find "aspell") + "ispell") "Program invoked by \\[ispell-word] and \\[ispell-region] commands." :type 'string :group 'ispell) Magnus _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
