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From: | Laimonas Vėbra |
Subject: | bug#24439: ispell.el; cutom setting `ispell-library-directory'; patch |
Date: | Thu, 15 Sep 2016 18:56:38 +0300 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0 SeaMonkey/2.40 |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: Laimonas Vėbra <laimonas.vebra@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 23:02:03 +0300 On Windows if one uses cygwin ispell, then one should fix ispell LIBDIR (which is not correct absolute path) relative to cygwin root by setting `ispell-library-directory'. Or one also might wish to use custom location of dictionaries.ispell-library-directory is not supposed to be customized by users, it's an internal variable set and used by ispell.el. To change the location of dictionaries, users are supposed to customize ispell-local-dictionary-alist. Why can't you do that instead?
I do understand, that it's internal variable, though it it useful (and i would say crucial) for customization. How am i suppose to customize `ispell-local-dictionary-alist'? AFAICS dictionaries, that are added there, are not visible to `ispell-change-dictionary', because `ispell-library-directory' points to a wrong directory, where `ispell-valid-dictionary-list' can't find them, so they are ommited.
That's not what I see. What I see is that ispell-library-directory is set once whenever the ispell process is created, which happens only once in a session, or when you change your ispell dictionary. So I
Correct: once per session. But it is redundant either, because it is already set before in `ispell-set-spellchecker-params', which is called
by ispell-(region word change-dictionary).
think this is completely justified, because the user could install additional dictionaries before restarting ispell.
IMHO, resetting `ispell-library-directory', once it is already set, without changing ispell-program-name is simply redundant. It is clear from logic in `ispell-set-spellchecker-params'
(unless (eq ispell-last-program-name ispell-program-name) ...)How (re)setting `ispell-library-directory' helps user installing new dictionaries? It's `ispell-valid-dictionary-list' responsibility to do actual work, besides `ispell-library-directory' is already set (before launching ispell process) and is not supposed to be changed if user doesn't change 'ispell-program-name'.
If the suggestions above don't solve your problems, perhaps you could write a batch file or a script which reported the library directory in the format that ispell.el expects in a native Windows build of Emacs. Or maybe you could switch to Hunspell or Aspell, which don't need ispell-library-directory at all. A native Windows port of Hunspell is available (and works very well for me).
Thanks, i'll consider that, but currently i'm happy with `ispell-library-directory customization' and elisp that fixes it.
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