Re: flyspell bug

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Richard Stallman wrote:

>     ispell and aspell use different dictionaries.  Changing the default
>     ispell program name from "ispell" to "aspell" is an incompatible
>     change for users configured Emacs to use ispell dictionaries,
>     not aspell dictionaries.
> 
> Maybe aspell could support ispell dictionaries.  

They are in a compiled binary format and doing such would be rather 
difficult.

> Or, aspell could see that it has been given an ispell dictionary file
> for a certain language, and automatically use the aspell dictionary for
> the same language (or report an error if it doesn't have one available).

If you use "-d DICT" where DICT does NOT end in ".hash" or is a complete 
path to an Ispell dictionary than it should work as you suggested.  This 
strategy should work for both Ispell and Aspell as Ispell.  If it did not 
find one it should print an error to standard out and return a non-zero 
exit code.

If a complete path is provided and the supplied dictionary is not an 
Aspell one it will also report an error to standard out and return a 
non-zero exit code.

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