Re: Another distro fix request, ispell/aspell/hunspell/...

[Jörg Sommer <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Tom,

"Tom Culliton" <culliton@xxxxxx> wrote:
> One of the constant minor annoyances with Linux distros is the way they
> switch preferred packages, sometimes seemingly at random.  For jed this
> means that ispell often isn't available, although there is generally some
> fairly compatible replacement (e.g. first "aspell", and now "hunspell" in
> Fedora).
>
> Would it be possible to make ispell.sl either adaptive (knowing some list
> of common spell checking packages) and/or provide an escape mechanism (say
> an ispell_cmd variable, rather like what compile mode does) to allow users
> or distro package maintainers to override the built in default?

What about:

% ls -l $(which ispell)
lrwxrwxrwx 1 joerg users 15  9. Feb 14:58 /home/joerg/bin/ispell -> /usr/bin/aspell

Bye, Jörg.
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