On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 at 18:15, Agustin Martin <agmar...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 11:06:39AM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote:
> >
> > I'm a bit confused now. Does aspell understand the name "castellano8"? If
> > so, how does it know about it? If not, presumably Emacs translates the
> name
> > into one that aspell understands?
>
> They are originally emacs-only stuff, mapped to a hash for the different
> spellcheckers. Original castellano8 entry in ispell.el
> `ispell-dictionary-base-alist' does this by passing ("-B" "-d"
> "castellano").
>
> For aspell, besides "aspell dump dicts" output, there are other possible
> aliases, in Debian aspell-es those include "castellano" and "castellano8".
> castellano was added to match original ispell name used for people having
> that in their ~/.emacs file. I do not think there is an aspell option
> listing all those aliases.
>
So, just to be clear, Aspell has Emacs-specific support for Emacs-specific
names, and it's hidden from regular the aspell command-line? If that's the
case, then indeed, I wouldn't propose to add that sort of functionality to
Enchant.
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