Subject: bug#49039: Aspell in Emacs

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:09:44 +0200 (CEST)

Agreed, it was mainly a confusion thing.  Hoped that Emacs would be clearer on what it was actually doing.  Many times historic things get in the way.  As things move forward, historic

things should be gradually moved to the side and concentrate on the realities of today.  It is a wise

comment but not something I can force.  But it is important to understand this.

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Subject: bug#49039: Aspell in Emacs
Date: 15/06/2021 19:51:08 Europe/Paris
Cc: [email-masked]

> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:30:08 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> In any case, since Emacs already looks for known spell-checkers, and
> already prefers aspell, my conclusion from the fact that it didn't
> work for you is that you have some unusual setup, which should be
> quite rare nowadays. The defaults are set such that the user will not
> need to know about this variable.

Actually, it's more likely that everything worked as intended on your
system, i.e. Emacs uses aspell for spell-checking commands, and you
simply _thought_ it didn't work because you expected to find commands
like aspell-word.