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Description of problem: Alpine .99999 has a bug whereby the spell checker aspell, and the default, will not work. If you use the default, "speller= " in pine.conf, you get an error message that says: Spell-checking file "" not found If you use "speller=aspell", you get a -1 unexpected error message. Also, no matter what you do, every time you hit "Ctrl-T", you get a file in the /tmp directory with the contents of your message. This might be a security issue, although the user permissions are of the author and the file permissions aren't 666, so I'll make this one public. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): .99999 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. See above. Actual results: See above. Expected results: See above. Additional info:
OK, it turns out that the backup file is actually the default for aspell and alpine/pico has no control other than the "speller=" configuration. If you put this in your configuration it will not create the .bak files: speller=aspell -x -e -c or speller=aspell --dont-backup --mode=email check As for the error message, I can now reproduce. I had been using my own local build of alpine without realizing it. This appears to be a build system problem, maybe I need alpine to be a BuildRequires. Adding the speller line to your Alpine configuration is a workaround.
Hi Joshua, I prefer the old pico editor. How do I get that back? Any clue?
I'm afraid and alpine, pico, and pilot (file browser) are all developed as part of the same source tree, so there's no way to get the old pico from the alpine source. You may of course download and build pine (including the old pico), but Fedora will not distribute it because of pine's non-Free licensing. Also I believe the current plan is to stop all pine development after alpine 1.0. Also, I see the aspell problem in the koji build.log: checking for aspell... no checking for ispell... no checking for spell... no It's too bad configure doesn't just take my word for it that I'll require it on the running system. :) I'm building for devel now, if it appears to fix the problem I'll start F7 and F8 builds too. I've also asked upstream to add "--dont-backup" to the default spellcheck options, which are set in alpine's configure.
OK, now configure is finding aspell: checking for aspell... /usr/bin/aspell checking for aspell... /usr/bin/aspell Spellcheck in alpine now works for me. Hopefully "--dont-backup" will make it into alpine-1.0 but either way you may change the default with this: speller=aspell --dont-backup --mode=email check Please try the update candidate at: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=24517 I'm going to go ahead and close this bug, if it does not fix the issue for you please reply with more details to reopen.
It works! Thanks for doing this, I appreciate it.