Subject: Re: [PATCH] 27.0.50; Add unattended spell-checking to checkdoc

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:59:28 +0200

> From: Damien Cassou <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:53:43 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> > What happens if none of the spellers supported by ispell.el is
> > installed on the user's system?
> 
> Starting new Ispell process ispell with default dictionary... \ 
> Buffer xxx has no process
> 
> Emacs exit status is 255 in this case.

Can we check this up front, and display some user-friendly message to
the effect that spell-checking cannot be done?