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commit 576502a5c5184c9b7416c77c2db2b032903080d2
parent ec9a11c76136f8968040e9d63f81f773826f46d6
Author: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date:   Sun, 24 Nov 2019 10:11:32 +0100

speller: when 'spell' is not found, try running 'hunspell -l' instead

This increases the chances that spell checking will work out of the box,
without any extra installing or configuration.

This addresses https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57296.

Diffstat:
M
src/text.c
 | 
5
+++--

1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/text.c b/src/text.c
@@ -2373,10 +2373,11 @@ const char *do_int_speller(const char *tempfile_name)
 		close(spell_fd[0]);
 		close(spell_fd[1]);
 
-		/* Now run the spell program. */
+		/* Now try to run 'spell', and if that fails, try running 'hunspell'. */
 		execlp("spell", "spell", NULL);
+		execlp("hunspell", "hunspell", "-l", NULL);
 
-		/* Indicate failure when spell is not found. */
+		/* Indicate failure when neither speller was found. */
 		exit(9);
 	}