Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't know why older Aspell's are no good for us. Magnus, can you
> please comment on that?
The main cause is that aspell >= 0.60 consistently supports UTF-8,
which simplifies the automatic dictionary detection. Supporting
aspell 0.50 would involve either looking for "charset" declarations in
in ispell-aspell-find-dictionary, or disabling the dictionary finding
and relying on the value of ispell-dictionary-alist.
The latter would be something like this patch:
--- orig/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
+++ mod/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
@@ -719,6 +719,12 @@
(defvar ispell-really-aspell nil) ; Non-nil if aspell extensions should be used
+(defvar ispell-aspell-supports-utf8 nil
+ "Non-nil means to try to automatically find aspell dictionaries.
+This is set to t in ispell-check-version for aspell >= 0.60.
+
+Earlier aspell versions do not consistently support UTF-8. Handling
+this would require some extra guessing in `ispell-aspell-find-dictionary'.")
@@ -815,8 +821,9 @@
(let (case-fold-search)
(setq ispell-really-aspell
(and (search-forward-regexp "(but really Aspell \\(.*\\))" nil t)
- (if (version< (match-string 1) "0.60")
- (error "aspell version 0.60 or greater is required")
+ (progn
+ (setq ispell-aspell-supports-utf8
+ (not (version< (match-string 1) "0.60")))
t)))))
(kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
result))
@@ -972,7 +979,8 @@
(condition-case ()
(progn (ispell-check-version) t)
(error nil))
- ispell-really-aspell)
+ ispell-really-aspell
+ ispell-aspell-supports-utf8)
(ispell-find-aspell-dictionaries))
(let ((dicts (append ispell-local-dictionary-alist ispell-dictionary-alist))
(dict-list (cons "default" nil))
Other than that, minor details and risk of bit rot. E.g. 0.50 accepts
"-l" as an alias of "list", while 0.60 does not (this was fixed in
flyspell a couple of months ago).
Magnus
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