Re: fixing two typos; incomplete error message; exit status

Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Oct 2019 20:58:01 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.aspell.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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