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From: erik@mpx2.UUCP (Erik Murrey)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: problem with ispell
Message-ID: <338@mpx2.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 17:46:48 GMT
References: <333@mpx2.UUCP> <527@eecea.eece.ksu.edu>
Reply-To: erik@mpx2.UUCP (Erik Murrey)
Organization: MPX Data Systems, Inc. ,  Wayne, PA
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[ if you read my previous diff, it was incorrect.  Sorry... ]

In article <527@eecea.eece.ksu.edu> terry@eecea.ksu.edu (Terry Hull) writes:
>In article <333@mpx2.UUCP> erik@mpx2.UUCP (Erik Murrey) writes:
>>
>> [ I describe how ispell doesn't work ]
>>
>Yes, this is a problem with some versions of ispell.  There are a
>couple of lines in ispell.el that should say:
>
>(defvar ispell-filter-hook-args '("-cs" "[A-Z][a-z]" "[\012*]")
>  "Argument LIST to pass to ispell-filter-hook")
>

Yes, this is the problem, thanks!

The actual diff (for me) is:
(Note that the double backslash is needed so that emacs
doesn't strip it out before sending to "tr")

*** /tmp/ispell.el	Fri Nov 18 00:57:03 1988
--- .emacs-lib/ispell.el	Tue Jan 10 12:33:08 1989
***************
*** 298,304
  deroff, detex, etc.")
  (make-variable-buffer-local 'ispell-filter-hook)
  
! (defvar ispell-filter-hook-args '("-cs" "A-Za-z" "\012")
    "Argument LIST to pass to ispell-filter-hook")
  (make-variable-buffer-local 'ispell-filter-hook-args)
  

--- 298,304 -----
  deroff, detex, etc.")
  (make-variable-buffer-local 'ispell-filter-hook)
  
! (defvar ispell-filter-hook-args '("-cs" "[A-Z][a-z]" "[\\012*]")
    "Argument LIST to pass to ispell-filter-hook")
  (make-variable-buffer-local 'ispell-filter-hook-args)
  



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