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26.3; ispell-really-hunspell sometimes fails in init

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From: Bob Rogers <rogers <at> modulargenetics.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 39137 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#39137: 26.3; ispell-really-hunspell sometimes fails in init
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 18:13:29 -0400

   From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
   Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:27:00 +0100

   Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

   > Can you step through the ispell.el's initialization code, and explain
   > how come ispell-dictionary-alist ends up being uninitialized by the
   > time ispell-start-process is called for spell-checking?  This
   > shouldn't happen.

   More information was requested, but no response was given within a
   year, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
   please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

My apologies for being so lazy, but I finally got around to checking
this out.  I went to reproduce the problem and found that the current
Emacs 27.2-rc2 on the affected system now produces the following error
message:

	ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries: Can t find Hunspell dictionary with a .aff affix file

So it was a Hunspell configuration issue (further investigation found
the missing RPM), and not an Emacs problem.  And I'm glad to see that
the Hunspell initialization now reports this intelligibly.

					-- Bob

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