GNU bug report logs - #6539
ispell-complete-word looks for wrong file (at least on w32)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:19:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #92 received at 6539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Agustin Martin <agustin.martin <at> hispalinux.es>
To: 6539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#6539: ispell-complete-word looks for wrong file (at least
	on	w32)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:47:57 +0200

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 05:32:09PM +0200, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> FWIW, I find it really confusing that ispell-complete-word does not
> >> use ispell.  It should probably be moved out of ispell.el (unless we
> >> can somehow make it use some ispell/aspell/hunspell functionality).
> 
> > It's there because it's an Ispell feature, present also in the
> > stand-alone version of the speller.
> 
> I must be missing something:
> Does ispell-complete-word use Ispell?  If not, then it shouldn't be in
> ispell.el (even if it provides a feature which Ispell also provides).

I see it as related to spell-checking (word-completion is often useful
for that), so ispell.el is not at all a bad place. I guess that is this 
relation to spell-checking what makes this feature be provided by Ispell.

Cheers,

-- 
Agustin
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