Re: [Aspell-user] Possible patch to make Emacs' Ispell minor mode work with Aspell 0.60

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, James J. Ramsey wrote:

> --- "James J. Ramsey" <address@hidden>
> wrote:
> > * If the "ispell" used by Emacs is really a version
> > of
> > Aspell 0.50 or greater, then by default the encoding
> > to pass strings to and from the Ispell process is
> > whatever encoding Emacs uses to display the file
> > being
> > spell checked. I only enabled this for Aspell
> > because
> > I can pipe to Aspell a command to tell it what
> > encoding to use,
> 
> Big problem. When I went to changed my revised version
> of ispell.el to add the features from the patch at
> <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/ispell.el-aspell-0.1.diff>,
> I discovered several very dumb bugs in my additions. I
> fixed them; however, one of those bugs hid the fact
> that contrary to what I had thought, I cannot change
> the encoding Aspell uses on the fly, so piping "$$cs
> encoding,utf-8" does *not* work. I can work around
> this, though.

No not at the moment sorry.

> Another problem. Piping "$$ra
> mispelledWurd,correctedWord" doesn't seem to cause
> ~/.aspell.en.prepl to be updated. It is updated when I
> run aspell via the curses interface, but only when
> aspell exits.

#1) The corrected word needs to be in the dictionary or else Aspell 
will ignore it
#2) You need to use '#' which will save both the personal dictionary and
the replasment dictionary.

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