GNU bug report logs - #50852
[PATCH] Fix search of the look program.

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: André A. Gomes <andremegafone <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Fixed in version 29.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
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: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:56:14 -0700

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.

LGTM.  I do wonder if this shouldn't be done in many more places...

> 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?

Does that apply to all versions of look or just the GNU one?
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