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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: 6539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, agustin6martin <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#6539: ispell-complete-word looks for wrong file (at least on	w32)
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:01:08 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: agustin6martin <at> gmail.com, 6539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:32:09 +0200
> 
> >> 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?

No.

> If not, then it shouldn't be in ispell.el (even if it provides a
> feature which Ispell also provides).

It was there to begin with, and it saves words into the same personal
dictionary that the rest of ispell.el uses.  So I see no point to
remove it from ispell.el, even though it doesn't run Ispell the
program.
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