"Richard M. Stallman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> A better solution might be to extend ispell-check-version to check
> aspell's version as well (right now it only checks whether ispell is
> really aspell), and modify the default value of ispell-program-name to
> use aspell only if it is >= 0.60.
>
> This is one of those problems that should not be solved. The right
> thing to do here is to install a more recent aspell version.
>
> I don't want to complicate the code in ispell.el to cater to old
> aspell versions. It would be a step for the worse.
I finally got around to writing a test for the aspell version. This
patch gives a clear error message instead of mysterious problems.
2005-09-02 Magnus Henoch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-check-version): Signal an error is
aspell version is less than 0.60.
*** ispell.el 31 Aug 2005 12:26:26 +0200 1.173
--- ispell.el 02 Sep 2005 14:09:07 +0200
***************
*** 814,820 ****
(goto-char (point-min))
(let (case-fold-search)
(setq ispell-really-aspell
! (and (search-forward "(but really Aspell " nil t) t))))
(kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
result))
--- 814,823 ----
(goto-char (point-min))
(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")
! t)))))
(kill-buffer (current-buffer)))
result))
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