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bug in internal Emacs documentation

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "John D. Landstreet" <jlandstr <at> astro.uwo.ca>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug in internal Emacs documentation
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 04:00:24 -0500 (EST)

Hello

The link

* Ispell: <URL:http://www.eng.utah.edu/~kstevens/ispell-page.html>

included in the Help -> External Packages link in the Emacs (22.2.1) 
distributed in Fedora 10 does not work, and so there seems to be no link 
providing a means to get ispell for Emacs, which I have always found 
extremely useful.

Yours sincerely, John Landstreet




                         Dr. John D. Landstreet
                     Leverhulme Visiting Professor
             Armagh Observatory, Armagh, Northern Ireland
                        phone: +44 077 9071 2606
                    WWW: http://astro.uwo.ca/~jlandstr

Message #10 received at 1762 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Agustin Martin <agustin.martin <at> hispalinux.es>
To: "John D. Landstreet" <jlandstr <at> astro.uwo.ca>,
        1762 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1762: bug in internal Emacs documentation
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:54:10 +0100

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 04:00:24AM -0500, John D. Landstreet wrote:
> Hello
> 
> The link
> 
> * Ispell: <URL:http://www.eng.utah.edu/~kstevens/ispell-page.html>
> 
> included in the Help -> External Packages link in the Emacs (22.2.1) 
> distributed in Fedora 10 does not work, and so there seems to be no link 
> providing a means to get ispell for Emacs, which I have always found 
> extremely useful.

That link seems to work for me.

However, ispell.el versions in that page are way outdated. ispell.el
versions shipped with FSF emacs 22 and above contain tons of improvements
over them and should already be in your emacs22 package.

Note that the above page refers to ispell.el, the emacs interface, not
ispell (or aspell), the program. You need to install ispell or aspell
separately. Not sure if they are provided by your distro (I think I
read somewhere that Fedora only provides hunspell). 

Regards,

-- 
Agustin

Message #15 received at 1762 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: "John D. Landstreet" <jlandstr <at> astro.uwo.ca>
To: Agustin Martin <agustin.martin <at> hispalinux.es>
Cc: 1762 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1762: bug in internal Emacs documentation
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 15:57:42 -0500 (EST)

Hello Augustin Martin

Thanks for taking the trouble to reply to my mail. I really appreciate 
your help.

Yes, that link now works for me too. I don't know why it broke for me 
earlier.

Thanks very much for the hint about aspell, which is not included in my 
Fedora 10 distro. I have installed it and now spell-checking works again 
in my VERY FAVOURITE editor.

You people who develop emacs do great work, and deserve our thanks.

All the best, john


                         Dr. John D. Landstreet
                     Leverhulme Visiting Professor
             Armagh Observatory, Armagh, Northern Ireland
                        phone: +44 077 9071 2606
                    WWW: http://astro.uwo.ca/~jlandstr


On Fri, 2 Jan 2009, Agustin Martin wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 04:00:24AM -0500, John D. Landstreet wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> The link
>>
>> * Ispell: <URL:http://www.eng.utah.edu/~kstevens/ispell-page.html>
>>
>> included in the Help -> External Packages link in the Emacs (22.2.1)
>> distributed in Fedora 10 does not work, and so there seems to be no link
>> providing a means to get ispell for Emacs, which I have always found
>> extremely useful.
>
> That link seems to work for me.
>
> However, ispell.el versions in that page are way outdated. ispell.el
> versions shipped with FSF emacs 22 and above contain tons of improvements
> over them and should already be in your emacs22 package.
>
> Note that the above page refers to ispell.el, the emacs interface, not
> ispell (or aspell), the program. You need to install ispell or aspell
> separately. Not sure if they are provided by your distro (I think I
> read somewhere that Fedora only provides hunspell).
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> Agustin
>

Message #20 received at 1762-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Agustin Martin <agustin.martin <at> hispalinux.es>
To: 1762-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#1762: bug in internal Emacs documentation
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 13:16:18 +0100

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 03:57:42PM -0500, John D. Landstreet wrote:
> 
> Yes, that link now works for me too. I don't know why it broke for me 
> earlier.
> 
> Thanks very much for the hint about aspell, which is not included in my 
> Fedora 10 distro. I have installed it and now spell-checking works again 
> in my VERY FAVOURITE editor.

Thanks for the feedback. Closing bug report.

-- 
Agustin

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