Subject: bug#24435: 25.1; Problem using Hunspell

From: Dmitri Paduchikh <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:06:59 +0500

Hello,

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

>> From: Dmitri Paduchikh <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 01:59:58 +0500
>> 
>> > How did it happen that Hunspell was invoked without the -a switch,
>> > though?  AFAICS, ispell-start-process hard-codes the -a switch, so it
>> > should have been invoked with it.
>> 
>> With ispell-extra-args being empty, the eventual form to start Hunspell is
>> 
>> * make-process(:name "ispell" :buffer nil :command ("hunspell" "-a" ""
>>   "-d" "ru_RU" "-i" "UTF-8"))
>> 
>> However right after evaluation of this form pgrep shows this:
>> 
>> $ pgrep -a hunspell
>> 6310 /usr/bin/hunspell  -d ru_RU -i UTF-8
>> $ tr \\0 \\n < /proc/6310/cmdline | cat -n
>>      1        /usr/bin/hunspell
>>      2        
>>      3        -d
>>      4        ru_RU
>>      5        -i
>>      6        UTF-8
>> $ 

> Does it mean hunspell is a shell script, which omits the -a when it
> invokes the actual program?  How else to explain the fact that -a
> disappears?

You are right. It is my own script which I wrote away back with some
obscure purpose and did not remove.

$ cat `which hunspell`
#!/bin/sh
shift
exec /usr/bin/hunspell "$@"

After removing this script, unmodified ispell.el works as expected.
Sorry for false alarm.

Best regards
Dmitri Paduchikh