The version of Emacs in F11 beta, after correctly configured to use huspell, only sees the default dictionary for the current locale. Especifically, this appears to be a dictionary named "", that huspell maps to the current set locale. The problem is that I sometimes edit text in another language. I was used to change spell dictionaries using the Tools|Spell Checking|Change Dictionary... menu option. Currently, this option does not list all installed dictionaries and selecting one of the list will lock the Emacs process in the next spell checking operation. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-22.3-10.fc11.x86_64 A workaround to this problem is starting Emacs in the locale you want to spell check. For example, if your locale isn't English and you want to spell check in US English, use: $ LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 emacs &
I see similar problems. Either, emacs locks up, e.g., when changing from a german dictionary to "english", or I get the following error in emacs messages buffer: Ispell process killed Local Ispell dictionary set to british Starting new Ispell process [british] ... Error in post-command-hook: (error Can't open affix or dictionary files. @(#) International Ispell Version 3.2.06 (but really Hunspell 1.2.8)) I have the british dictionary installed on my machine: $ rpm -q hunspell-en hunspell-en-0.20090216-2.fc11.noarch $ ll /usr/share/myspell/en_GB.* -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 27449 26. Mai 2005 /usr/share/myspell/en_GB.aff -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 527349 25. Feb 05:44 /usr/share/myspell/en_GB.dic
It seems that the "" dictionary is defined in ispell-dictionary-alist as the nil dictionary. (nil "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil ("-B") nil iso-8859-1) This has the following additional problems: 1) It doesn't parse correctly word boundaries for words not composed of only ASCII characters. 2) It assumes iso-8859-1 dictionaries. As I can't change dictionary configurations, portuguese dictionaries are unusable out of the box, even if I set the locale correctly in my session or configure a dictionary entry manually in my .emacs. Sorry for noticing it so late, but this means the Fedora 9 dictionary unification is a failure for Emacs. A workaround is to install aspell.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Is this a duplicate of bug 498556? Anyway I have just upgraded to Fedora 11 (release version) and I have temporarly moved back to aspell.
I'm seeing this problem as well. Whatever the default emacs magic for using ispell is it kills and hangs waiting for hunspell. I have aspell installed but the ispell package is still being hi-jacked by hunspell which I can't uninstall without the system dissapearing.
(In reply to comment #4) > Is this a duplicate of bug 498556? No, I have the locale correctly set, and "huspell -a" works in the command line.
I investigated this issue further and discovered that, at least in my machine, the huspell process locks because of wrong paramenters in ispell-dictionary-alist. For example, it can't find the named dictionary. As most of the entries in this list are not for hunspell or the hunspell dictionaries shipped with Fedora, changing a dictionary is sure to break things. Moreover, we have the word boundaries and character enconding problems. So, the solution is simple. Redefine ispell-dictionary-alist to contain entries correctly configured to all the hunspell dictionaries shipped by Fedora, using the opportunity to fix the other issues. As an example, I have set a limited number of dictionaries (the ones I use) in my .emacs (inspired by http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InteractiveSpell): ; Resets the dictionary list for the hunspell dictionaries. (setq ispell-dictionary-alist '( (nil "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil ("-d" "en_US") nil utf-8) ("en_US" "[A-Za-z]" "[^A-Za-z]" "[']" nil ("-d" "en_US") nil utf-8) ("pt_BR" "[a-zàáâãçéêíóôõúüA-ZÀÁÂÃÇÉÊÍÓÔÕÚÜ]" "[^a-zàáâãçéêíóôõúüA-ZÀÁÂÃÇÉÊÍÓÔÕÚÜ]" "" nil ("-d" "pt_BR") nil utf-8) )) (eval-after-load "ispell" (progn (setq ispell-dictionary "pt_BR" ispell-extra-args '("-i" "utf-8") ispell-silently-savep t))) ;(setq-default ispell-program-name "hunspell") This gets rid of the default locale based dictionary (that doesn't work due to the word boundary problem), and sets UTF-8 as the default encoding (see ispell-extra-args). If we can complete this with entries for the other hunspell dictionaries, this should solve this bug.
hello, is the problem solved in new emacs 23.1, to which we updated F11?
The update to 23.1 in F11 certainly solved my problem with spelling add-ons. I can't speak for the original poster though. Certainly my .emacs selects UK English fine as the default.
No, the problem isn't solved. I've tried to mimic as best as I could the out-of-the-box situation. Now I see messages informing me that pt_BR dictionary can't be found. Also, If I try to change dictionaries, none can be found. However, no lockups. The explanation for this is simple. Since version 22.3-14.fc11, Emacs in Fedora requires aspell (see bug# 508033). This makes the locking problem go away. However, aspell isn't the default spell checker for Fedora, so no aspell dictionaries are installed. The user has to manually discover this and fix it by installing the dictionaries. I consider this (manually installing and using aspell) a workaround, not a fix. As the dictionary lists are not changed, Emacs still locks when I manually set to use hunspell. Using the dictionary configuration of comment# 7 fixes it. I've had to change the configuration in 23.1 to use ispell-local-dictionary-alist, as ispell-dictionary-alist was being overwritten in this version (not in 22.x).
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This bug is still there in F13 with emacs-23.2-1.fc13.i686 aspell-0.60.6-11.fc13.i686 hunspell-1.2.8-17.fc13.i686 Emacs requires aspell, but is not configured to use it by default (ispell-program-name is nil and the aspell dictionaries are not installed). I did (setq ispell-program-name "/usr/bin/hunspell") and that led to Emacs locking up when trying to change dictionaries. Strangely the Emacs user interface seemed to list dictionaries that were not installed for hunspell, so the lock-up may be because of changing to a non-existent dictionary.
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