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[PATCH] Fix search of the look program.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: André A. Gomes <andremegafone <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 50852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 07:54:07 +0200

André A. Gomes <andremegafone <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Here's a more robust way to handle the existence of the look program by
> ispell.  GNU Guix users will be happy.

Thanks; applied to Emacs 28 (but I made the ispell-look-p change more
defensive, in case somebody has set ispell-look-command in their init
file).

> There's another aspect worth discussing.  The look program doesn't have
> the -r flag (as of today), but ispell handles this case (look at
> ispell-look-options).  It seems that look was published around 1979.
> Perhaps it's time to deprecate this flag?

Do you know when the "-r" flag disappeared?

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