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Re: ispell select Emacs dictionary on Debian
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: ispell select Emacs dictionary on Debian |
Date: |
Sun, 01 Aug 2021 09:09:55 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2021 02:26:16 +0200
> From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>
> Felix Dietrich wrote:
>
> > “emacsen-ispell-dicts.el” is only read at start-up [2].
> > If you install a new dictionary, an already running Emacs
> > will not know about it.
>
> Same with restart.
>
> > You may try to reinitialise the dictionary with the
> > following snippet:
> >
> > (progn
> > (setq debian-ispell-only-dictionary-alist nil
> > debian-aspell-only-dictionary-alist nil
> > debian-hunspell-only-dictionary-alist nil
> > ispell-dictionary-alist nil)
> > (load-file "/var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el")
> > ;; There is a setter associated with ‘ispell-program-name’ which
> > ;; calls ‘ispell-set-spellchecker-params’. Calling this function
> > ;; directly does not work; I don't understand why.
> > (setq ispell-program-name "ispell"))
>
> That file,
> /var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell-dicts.el, has as
> its last line
>
> (setq debian-hunspell-dictionary (debian-ispell-get-hunspell-default))
>
> but the function "debian-ispell-get-hunspell-default"
> is undefined.
>
> Anyway same.
>
> > For testing purposes, start Emacs with the “-q”
> > (“--no-init-file”) switch. Do the dictionaries show up then
> > in the dialog of ‘ispell-change-dictionary’?
>
> A lot of dictionaries show up with -q! No idea why, and
> interestingly, american-insane and the other installed do not.
>
> > Do you use a custom built Emacs or the Debian package?
>
> It is installed from source!
>
> >> PS. The Swedish dictionary doesn't work either. It saysff
> >> "ispell-init-process: Illegal format hash table
> >> /usr/lib/ispell/svenska.hash - expected magic2 0x9602,
> >> got 0x414c"
> >
> > Does not work for me either. Seems like a bug. Please report
> > it. Meanwhile, try recreating the .hash file manually
> > (requires the wswedish package):
> >
> > buildhash /usr/share/dict/svenska /usr/lib/ispell/svenska.aff \
> > /usr/lib/ispell/svenska.hash
>
> That works! Cool!
>
> A bug where, in Debian's wswedish?
I wonder why people still insist on using ispell (the program), when
hunspell and aspell are widely available, provide better
spell-checking in more languages, and detect the installed
dictionaries automatically instead of requiring complicated manual
sertup?
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