Subject: Re: bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries

From: Basilio <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 23:13:24 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Basilio <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 21:35:11 +0200
>> 
>> > Finally, what is the Aspell version?  What does "aspell -vv" produce?
>> ~ % aspell -vv                         
>> @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.60.7-rc1)
>
> That's the problem, I think: that "-rc1" at the end of the version
> string.  Emacs looks for a version string with this regexp:
>
>  (search-forward-regexp "(but really Aspell \\([0-9]+\\.[0-9\\.-]+\\)?)" nil t)
>
> which doesn't match 0.60.7-rc1.

Thanks a lot!

Is there an easy way to solve it on my level and chances that there will be some
solution developed upstream? I'm not very proficient in Lisp unfortunately.