* lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
(ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries): Invoke Hunspell with an
additional command-line argument, to work around a misfeature
in Hunspell 1.7.0 that prevents it from reporting the loaded
dictionary. (Bug#33493)
null-device
t
nil
- "-D")
+ ;; Hunspell 1.7.0 (and later?) won't
+ ;; show LOADED DICTIONARY unless
+ ;; there's at least one file argument
+ ;; on the command line. So we feed
+ ;; it with the null device.
+ "-D" null-device)
(buffer-string))
"[\n\r]+"
t))