Hello, Many thanks for your prompt and kind response!
Agustin Martin (2018/12/12 11:31 +0100): > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 06:07:41PM +0100, Sebastien Hinderer wrote: > > Package: dictionaries-common > > Version: 1.28.1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > For some reason ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries does not find the > > installed hunspell dictionaries, leading ispell-hunspell-dictionary-alist > > to be nil. > > Hi, > > GNU Emacs uses its own ispell.el and flyspell.el files, not those provided > by dictionaries-common, which are only for XEmacs. Oh, I wasn't aware of that, sorry. > ispell.el has recently > been patched in Emacs to work around this issue, but since XEmacs does not > use hunspell auto-detection I do not think this change is needed in > dictionaries-common ispell.el. OK so I am using GNU Emacs, not xemacs. IS there a way for me to get the correct (patched) version of ispell.el by installing debian packages, or do I have to do something different, like installing an upstream version of GNU Emacs? All the best and thanks again for your assistance, Sébastien.