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#62775
29.0.60; C-M-i or ispell-complete-word experiences "lookup-words error"
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Reported by: Van Ly <van.ly <at> sdf.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:51:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 29.0.60
Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #31 received at 62775 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:08:16 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: van.ly <at> sdf.org, 62775 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > From: Agustin Martin <agustin6martin <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:50:38 +0200
> >
> > El mar, 11 abr 2023 a las 20:03, Van Ly (<van.ly <at> sdf.org>) escribió:
> >
> > > The fact that this feature
> > > depends on additional file is now mentioned in the doc string.
> >
> > The package "aspell-en" has what looks like cwl=>"compressed wordlist"
> > located at
> >
> > /usr/share/aspell/en-*.cwl.gz
> >
> > I wonder if there is something like /usr/share/dict/words (or /usr/share/dict/american-english) in your
> > box. It should contain the classical plain wordlist unix boxes expect.
I upgraded from the Intel x86 Mac Mini, it had the words file from a
time before Apple decided to weedout GNU free software after
Steve Jobs departed.
Plan9 userspace provides plan9/lib/words which Emacs can find in /usr.
> I guess not, because if such files were present, ispell.el ought to
> have found them, as it looks in those locations when it initializes
> ispell-alternate-dictionary, and the problem wouldn't have happened in
> the first place.
>
The command aspell is using the 'ispell -a' compatibility mode, I
guess, the ispell-complete-word could call the aspell command for
munch Generate possible root words and affixes from an input list of
words.
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