On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 at 00:33, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote: > > > "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.ca@localhost> writes: > > > kre mentioned giving up on ispell, but I found it "hard" to use anything > > but ispell with emacs, so as I've upgraded systems and ended up tripping > > over this breakage, I've eventually persevered to make it work again. > > I am using emacs built from pkgsrc, and M-x ispell runs aspell, via > ispell-program variable set to /usr/pkg/bin/aspell. It seems to work > fine. Sometimes I even run it. > > > I don't remember why aspell didn't work for me (I have hacks in my > > .emacs.el to try to use it), but I do remember it was much easier to fix > > ispell than to make aspell work. > > For me, it seems to be default. See ispell.el, defcustom for > ispell-program-name. > > > At Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:33:11 -0500, Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote: > > Subject: Re: ispell-british (for 9.0/amd64) has broken hash files > >> > >> If you follow upstream's build instructions, not using pkgsrc, does it > >> work? > > > > I guess so? That's more or less how I've changed the package to make it > > work -- I.e. just use the supplied makefile. > > I see - I did not get that impression earlier and thought this was an > upstrream rototill being submitted to pkgsrc. > > >> It sounds like you should be sending your fixes to ispell upstream, but > >> maybe there is a pkgsrc bug, vs, a lack of pkgsrc workaround for an > >> upstream bug. > > > > Here's the PR with my fixes: pkg/55972 > > Thanks - I hope someone has a look at this. I may, in a bit, but I > would be very happy if someone beats me to it! I've tested it; a patch against the latest version is attached. emacs ispell function prefers aspell over hunspell over ispell, btw. Chavdar -- ----
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