hi Magnus, thanks for explaining the version differences in aspell's behaviour.
> 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) Sounds like a good way to solve this, thanks. Stephen _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel