;;; ispell.el --- interface to International Ispell Versions 3.1 and 3.2
;; Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-;; 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
;; Author: Ken Stevens <k.stevens@ieee.org>
;; Maintainer: Ken Stevens <k.stevens@ieee.org>
: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\""
local variable syntax.")
(make-variable-buffer-local 'ispell-local-pdict)
+;;;###autoload(put 'ispell-local-pdict 'safe-local-variable 'stringp)
(defvar ispell-buffer-local-name nil
"Contains the buffer name if local word definitions were used.