GNU bug report logs - #29801
25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: basilio <at> gmx.com

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2017 16:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 31724

Found in versions 24.5, 25.3

Fixed in version 26.0.91

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Basilio <basilio <at> gmx.com>, 29801 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29801: 25.3; ispell cannot detect installed dictionaries
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2017 13:04:08 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Change this regexp in ispell.el:
>
>   "(but really Aspell \\([0-9]+\\.[0-9\\.-]+\\)?)"
>
> into this:
>
>   "(but really Aspell \\([0-9]+\\.[0-9.]+\\([-._+ ]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+\\)?\\)?)"

I see that the only thing ispell.el uses the numeric version for is to
test if it is >= 0.60. aspell 0.60 was released in 2004. Even RHEL6 has
aspell 0.60.6. So IMO ispell.el can discard the version checking
entirely, and just look for "really Aspell".
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