; * lisp/textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-aspell-find-dictionary): Add a comment.

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
index 8107f794e0759d48aded7d3122182ebde7dfc0ec..f67fae8bcfad84b69532a211d5bdb24f987db061 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
@@ -1075,7 +1075,8 @@ of `ispell-dictionary-base-alist' elements."
           (dolist ( tmp-path (list ispell-aspell-dict-dir
                                    ispell-aspell-data-dir ))
             ;; Try xx.dat first, strip out variant, country code, etc,
-            ;; then try xx_YY.dat (without stripping country code).
+            ;; then try xx_YY.dat (without stripping country code),
+             ;; then try xx-alt.dat, for deu-alt etc.
             (dolist (tmp-regexp (list "^[[:alpha:]]+"
                                       "^[[:alpha:]_]+"
                                        "^[[:alpha:]]+-\\(alt\\|old\\)"))