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[PATCH] Fix search of the look program.

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Message #19 received at 50852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: andremegafone <at> gmail.com, 50852 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Subject: Re: bug#50852: [PATCH] Fix search of the look program.
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 08:11:18 +0200

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

> In this case, why not simply have the value as "look" with no leading
> directories?  If the program is installed, it will be found when it's
> invoked, and if it isn't installed, the user gets an error message at
> that time.

That's a good point.  And the ispell-look-p variable is itself rather
odd -- why have both ispell-look-command and that variable (with a
non-standard name)?

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