Re: fixing two typos; incomplete error message; exit status
Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:58:01 -0400 (EDT)
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On Wed, 23 Oct 2019, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Looking through the documentation of 0.60.8 for some info about
> the exit status of aspell, I came across a typo ("termianted")
> in the README file. Then I spell-checked the whole thing and
> found another ("implemenation"). Attached patch fixes those.
Thanks. Applied.
> Then something I've wanted to report since a long time: most
> tools allow one to bundle the short options, but aspell doesn't.
> When one tries to run 'aspell -xc somefile' it not only fails,
> it also says:
>
> Error: does not take any parameters.
>
> Something appears to be missing ("-x"?) from the message.
Yep, it's a bug that's fixed now. Thanks for finding it.
> So, it would be good if the manual said that short options
> may not be concatenated.
>
> And it would be nice if the manual said something about the
> exit status of aspell. That it is zero when no error occurred.
>
> Whether spelling corrections were made or not cannot be seen
> in the exit status.
I created an issue for these suggestions.
https://github.com/GNUAspell/aspell/issues/587
Kevin