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- irvine@lks.csi.com wrote:
- >
- > As part of the ispell 3 installation process, an ispell.el file is
- > placed in the lemacs/lisp directory. As part of the lemacs 19.6
- > distribution, there is another ispell.el file that resides in the
- > lemacs/lisp/packages directory. Which is the corrent one to use?
-
- The version of ispell.el that comes with lemacs 19.6 is known to work with
- lemacs 19.6 and ispell 3.0.9. I don't know whether the version of ispell.el
- that comes with ispell 3.0.9 works with lemacs, but it certainly will work
- less well. The lemacs 19.6 ispell.el won't work with any older version of
- ispell (but the versions of ispell.el that come with ispell also tend not to
- work with any other version but the one they come with.)
-
- > If I use the one that is part of lemacs 19.6, I still get the version
- > mismatch message from ispell that I got before I upgraded.
-
- Then you're not using ispell 3.0.9, which I believe is on ftp.cs.ucla.edu in
- pub/ispell/.
-
- Unfortunately, ispell has gone through numerous interface changes, making it
- very hard to have one .el interface to it that works with all versions. I
- recently made ispell.el work with 19.6 and 3.0.9, and sent my changes back to
- ispell's author, so hopefully they will be synchronized in the future.
-
- One of the changes I made to ispell.el was to simply refuse to run with a
- version of ispell different from the one it's expecting, which is why you're
- seeing the version mismatch message. Before I did this, the failure symptom
- was to silently do nothing, which was not terribly informative.
-
- -- Jamie
-
-