bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.

[André A . Gomes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
>> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,  andremegafone@gmail.com,
>>   50852@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:11:18 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> > In this case, why not simply have the value as "look" with no leading
>> > directories?  If the program is installed, it will be found when it's
>> > invoked, and if it isn't installed, the user gets an error message at
>> > that time.
>> 
>> That's a good point.  And the ispell-look-p variable is itself rather
>> odd -- why have both ispell-look-command and that variable (with a
>> non-standard name)?
>
> Right.  The existence of "look" should IMO be tested as part of
> ispell-lookup-words, not when the package loads.  Then the command
> could decide whether to use "look" or Grep at that time, and the need
> for the ispell-look-p variable would disappear.

You're both right.  I was actually silly.  I can prepare a patch
following these ideas.


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André A. Gomes
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