[772] in NetBSD-Development
Re: ispell and /usr/athena/bin/emacs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rain)
Wed May 10 11:03:28 1995
To: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 1995 10:22:36 EDT."
<199505101422.KAA28660@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 11:01:38 EDT
From: rain <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Yeah, we went through all this on the list about a week and a half ago
with user bdrosen. The fix involves more work than it looks, since
the athena/sipb version of ispell won't work with the emacs19 version
of ispell.el (it wants GNU ispell). If you have some free time, what
needs to be done is:
o emacs needs to be told where to find ispell. This should
eventually be done in site-init.el, but for now can be done in
/afs/sipb/system/i386_nbsd1/usr/athena/lib/emacs/site-lisp/default.el.
o we need a version of ispell that emacs19 will work with. This
drops us into ispell-hell, where there are two different versions
of ispell, and one of them has a numbering scheme that goes like
this: 2.x -> 3.0 -> 4.0 -> 3.1. If you can find one that's
farther along the chain than that, get it, verify that it is what
you think, blow away /afs/sipb/project/sipbsrc/src/ispell-3.1, and
start working on what you found. Otherwise, go with that source.
You will have to use different versions of the dictionary files,
so you'll have to figure out how to build them and merge in the
mboggle words stuff. Investigating the foreign language support
would also be cool.
o while you're at it, it would be good to take a look at the
different ispell.el's and see if we can't make them work and play
with both versions of ispell...
Also, I'm planning on rebuilding emacs19 for inbsd in the emacs19
locker soon, which might affect people's plans...
chad
