Bug 713600

Summary: emacs ispell mode should use hunspell by default
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Jay Berkenbilt <ejb>
Component: emacsAssignee: Karel Klíč <kklic>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team <qe-baseos-security>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 6.1CC: cww, jwest, omoris, rvokal, vbenes
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: ZStream
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: emacs-23.1-24.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-10-09 12:41:36 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Bug Depends On:    
Bug Blocks: 796053    
Attachments:
Description Flags
Proposed patch none

Description Jay Berkenbilt 2011-06-15 21:01:28 UTC 
Description of problem:

Emacs's ispell mode (also used by flyspell mode) tries ispell, aspell, and hunspell in that order as spell checkers.  Perhaps Red Hat's build should just use hunspell since ispell is no longer available and aspell is non-functional with no dictionaries.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

emacs-23.1-21.el6

How reproducible:

always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum install emacs aspell
2. emacs -q &
3. In emacs, M-x ispell-buffer
  
Actual results:

Emacs says:

ispell-init-process: Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".

Expected results:

The spelling checker should work even if aspell is installed.

Additional info:

In lisp/textmodes/ispell.el, the initialization of ispell-program-name tries aspell, ispell, and hunspell in that order.  Change it to try hunspell first.
Comment 1 Jay Berkenbilt 2011-06-15 21:04:38 UTC 
See also bug 590700.  (Hey, neat...both bug numbers are multiples of 100.  Oh, sorry.)
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2011-07-06 01:36:32 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated
in the current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to
address this request at this time. Red Hat invites you to
ask your support representative to propose this request, if
appropriate and relevant, in the next release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux. If you would like it considered as an
exception in the current release, please ask your support
representative.
Comment 4 Karel Klíč 2011-11-16 10:57:18 UTC 
Created attachment 533970 [details]
Proposed patch
Comment 9 Jiri Pallich 2012-10-09 12:41:36 UTC 
Since this is a parent bug of an issue that has already been released via Z-Stream (e.g. rhel-6.3.z), this bug is going to be CLOSED as CURRENTRELEASE.