From 3aaa2d2058125a755bd6226cb4009811089812f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 18:07:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Fix Hunspell invocation for discovering its dictionaries * lisp/textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-find-hunspell-dictionaries): Invoke Hunspell with the -a switch, to prevent it from initializing its curses UI. (Bug#34272) --- lisp/textmodes/ispell.el | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el index 656c9fad932..237997d41d7 100644 --- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el +++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el @@ -1114,12 +1114,19 @@ dictionary from that list was found." null-device t nil + "-D" + ;; Use -a to prevent Hunspell from + ;; trying to initialize its + ;; curses/termcap UI, which causes it + ;; to crash or fail to start in some + ;; MS-Windows ports. + "-a" ;; 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) + null-device) (buffer-string)) "[\n\r]+" t)) -- 2.39.5