Re: flyspell mode not buffer local?
Tim Connors writes:
On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Unfortunately, Debian's policies concerning this kind of
stuff
> are a compromise, and in this kind of case they don't work very
> well with XEmacs.
I understand why they backport things, but do you know why they
decide to
link in the flyspell.el into both the emacs and xemacs trees, when both
the emacs (emacs22-el and emacs22-common) and xemacs (xemacs21-basesupport
and xemacs21-basesupport-el) packages have their own versions?
No, that sounds like a genuine bug and a violation of Debian's Emacs
policy.
> I'll try to remember to put "sync flyspell" on the
TODO list.
I am a little confused. On a Centos 4 machine where I have not been able
to break flyspell at all, the flyspell.el is dating from 2002.
Well, obviously somebody thought flyspell needed some changes since
there's a fairly large diff from 2002 to 2007. If you can't break
the 2002 version, don't worry about it (unless we break things by
syncing).
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.emacs.xemacs/browse_thread/thread/1...
The reporter obviously never solved that bug, instead getting a
self-consistent version of the sumo instead of debian's version. Despite
being basically the same file in Centos4, the button-2 fault does not
appear in it.
Sounds like Debian has other patches somewhere that cause the problem.
So I installed flyspell.el (v 1.7n) from
http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell.html
and it seems to be working perfectly on debian, it having overridden the
version in xemacs21-basesupport, and of course the one in
dictionaries-common. That's where I am now -- using upstream's 1.7n
version on debian, and am not going to touch the Centos4 machine until it
breaks:)
Nice to know. Sounds like you are set, and like we can update to a
much more recent version without causing anyone too much pain.
Thanks for the followup, and a happy, productive 2008 to you!
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