Re: Dictionary alias names

Kevin Atkinson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.aspell.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Most dictionaries ship with `.alias' files.  E.g., the French dictionary
> comes with `francais.alias', and my understanding is that it should
> allow one to type "aspell -l francais" instead of "aspell -l fr_FR" and
> get the same result (Emacs' Ispell interface expects it to work, for
> instance).
>
> However, I can't get it to work.  Running "strace aspell -l francais"
> reveals that `aspell' doesn't even try to look for a file called
> `francais.alias' or similar.

Alias only work when using the dictionary option  Try "aspell -d 
francais".

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