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Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/textmodes/ispell.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/textmodes/ispell.el | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el index 0e3f9dffada..65153c3bb5d 100644 --- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el +++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el @@ -336,12 +336,17 @@ Always stores Fcc copy of message when nil." :group 'ispell) -(defcustom ispell-grep-command "egrep" +(defcustom ispell-grep-command + ;; MS-Windows/MS-DOS have `egrep' as a Unix shell script, so they + ;; cannot invoke it. Use "grep -E" instead (see ispell-grep-options + ;; below). + (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)) "grep" "egrep") "Name of the grep command for search processes." :type 'string :group 'ispell) -(defcustom ispell-grep-options "-i" +(defcustom ispell-grep-options + (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos)) "-Ei" "-i") "String of options to use when running the program in `ispell-grep-command'. Should probably be \"-i\" or \"-e\". Some machines (like the NeXT) don't support \"-i\"" |