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From: mark@zok.UUCP (Mark W. Snitily)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,gnu.emacs
Subject: Fix to ispell.el for 386/ix
Keywords: ispell
Message-ID: <444@zok.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 90 00:37:49 GMT
Followup-To: comp.unix.i386
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This one took me some time to figure out so I thought I'd pass it along.

I recently compiled ispell for 386/ix 2.0.2 with no changes except for
the Makefile and config.X files, (this is normal installation).  When I
tried to use ispell.el with gnu emacs (18.55) it simply wouldn't work
right.

As it turns out, there's no real bug in ispell.el, but rather a BSD
verses System V arg difference in the Unix "tr" filter.  I think this
applies to all System V implementations but have only tested it on
the 386/ix 2.0.2 version.

Here's a context diff for ispell.el, (just a one line change):

*** ispell.el.org	Fri Dec 15 14:35:57 1989
--- ispell.el	Sun Feb 11 16:09:57 1990
***************
*** 363,369 ****
  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)
  
--- 363,369 ----
  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)
  
-- Mark

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