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

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>
Cc: alex.branham <at> gmail.com, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, k.stevens <at> ieee.org,
 bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, zappo <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 27.0.50; Add unattended spell-checking to checkdoc
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 21:59:28 +0200

> From: Damien Cassou <damien <at> cassou.me>
> Cc: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org, k.stevens <at> ieee.org, zappo <at> gnu.org, alex.branham <at> gmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
> Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 20:53:43 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> 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?

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