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ispell.el and apostrophe

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From: Bob Sloan
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 16:51
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	I grabbed a copy of the version of ispell marked (C) 1988
Ashwin Ram, last patch 3/30/89 by Ray Moody, and changed two things:
I updated the vesion of ispell checked for to 2.0.02, and I made the
indicated change to have apostrophes count as part of words.  (i.e.,
I'm a thinking that "I'm" should be a word.) 

	Hence a chunk of my code reads
(progn
      (setq ispell-syntax-table (make-syntax-table))
      ;; Make certain characters word constituents
      (modify-syntax-entry ?' "w   " ispell-syntax-table)
      ;; (modify-syntax-entry ?- "w   " ispell-syntax-table)
      ;; Get rid on existing word syntax on certain characters 
      (modify-syntax-entry ?0 ".   " ispell-syntax-table)
	Problem:  The system gets very unhappy when I ispell-buffer a
buffer with apostrophes.  In particular, althugh it will correctly
offer to fix or add to the dictionary "Arrakis", when it gets to
Maud'dib, I get the message
	"Can't find Maud in original text -- Any key to continue"

	Help?

	Also, are there any "traditional" key bindings for
ispell-word, ispell-complete-word, and ispell-buffer?

	
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From: sloan@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu (Bob Sloan)
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Subject: ispell.el and apostrophe
Message-ID: <1991Mar20.165151.15127@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
Date: 20 Mar 91 16:51:51 GMT
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Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
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