Bugzilla Bug 125976

Please mark this ebuild stable, it's been around since 2004.  When ppc and x86
both have marked the newer version stable, please go ahead and remove the
3.17.7 from the tree.

I can't seem to type anything into the edit field without getting an error
about not being able to read from ispell (or aspell), but I do have ispell
installed, and in path, so I'm not sure exactly what it's looking for.

Looking over it again, looks like -spell isn't fully disabling the spell stuff.

ChrisWhite, mind debugging it, or should we just disable the USE-flag and make
ispell required?  I don't care either way, I don't actually use this package, I
just bump it occasionally.

The reason for this error message is that auto spellcheck is on by default
until you set up your preferences so that it is disabled
(options->switches->spellcheck-as-you-type)

After you turn off auto spellcheck, then you can edit normally. However I think
it would be reasonable to make ispell/aspell required dep unless there is a way
to make autospellcheck default to off when cooledit is emerged with -spell 

I've looked into turning off auto-spell by default and it doesn't seem
practical -- there is no system prefs or resource file. I vote for removing the
spell flag.

I cannot confirm that the issues described here are solved by emerging cooledit
with spell enabled. The behavour i see is exactly the one described in comment
1,
regardless if cooledit-3.17.17 has been merged with spell or not. Deactivating
(options->switches->spellcheck-as-you-type), as suggested in comment 4 solves
this problem. Besides of this issue cooledit-3.17.17 seems to work for me; but
be aware that i've only tested it's basic funcionality, as this is not the
editor of my choice. If anybody want's me to verify my observations on another
x86 system, let me know.

Portage 2.0.54 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.5-r2,
2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig colission-protect distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at/ "
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LINGUAS="de en"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aalib alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts
bonobo bzip2 bzlib cairo cdr cli crypt css ctype cups curl dba dbus divx4linux
dri dts dv dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo exif expat fam fame fastbuild
ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut
gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal idn imagemagick
imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit lcms libg++ libwww mad memlimit mhash mikmod mmx
mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg nautilus ncurses nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg
oggvorbis openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl plotutils png posix python
quicktime readline real ruby sdl session simplexml slang soap sockets speex
spell spl sqlite sse ssl subtitles svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff tokenizer
truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vcd vorbis win32codecs wma
xine xml xml2 xmms xsl xv xvid zlib linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS

When doing a fresh merge of the package it works fine for me.
spellcheck-as-you-type was not enabled., those aspell-errors did not occur. I
did not have the package installed before and I used -spell in my USE.

The only effect of the spell USE flag on cooledit is to pull in a spelling
utility if none is installed. Using -spell will not prevent cooledit from
defaulting to autospell mode, it will only prevent aspell/ispell from being
installed as a dep if they are not already installed.

* if aspell is installed, 
  cooledit will try to use aspell for autospell
  * if aspell works, everything is fine
  * if aspell is broken, error dialog comes up until autospell is disabled
* if aspell is not found but ispell is installed, 
  cooledit will use ispell for autospell
  * if ispell works, everything is fine
  * if ispell is broken, error dialog comes up until autospell is disabled
* if neither aspell or ispell is installed,
  cooledit will skip autospell and everything is fine

In my case, I had started out with an aspell which didn't run properly even at
the command line (I knew it was a broken version, but forgot to revert because
I usually run ispell...) and that's why I got the error dialog. Since it was
really an aspell problem, I'm going to go ahead and stable cooledit-3.17.12 on
ppc.

Ok, just waiting for amd64, ppc-macos and x86 to stable cooledit-3.17.12.ebuild

same problem as comment #1 with aspell and ispell.  No dictionaries for aspell
installed, so that'll be the problem.  ispell from the menu worked fine.

Marked ppc-macos stable

Marked stable on x86, I've of the opinion that we should just make it a depend
and be done with it. I however didn't want to step on any toes and just go and
change the ebuild.

(-_-)

I just made the ispell dep unconditional, good call