From 6c1842f86d34d0e9afdea3e445c36091b5bf8246 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nomarian <nomarian@outlook.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2025 10:26:35 -0400
Subject: No forking when trying to check for spellchecking utilities in $PATH
 (use package.searchpath instead)

---
 spellcheck.lua | 20 +++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

(limited to 'spellcheck.lua')

diff --git a/spellcheck.lua b/spellcheck.lua
index ff2db5e..84f2ef5 100644
--- a/spellcheck.lua
+++ b/spellcheck.lua
@@ -15,19 +15,23 @@ spellcheck.get_lang = function()
     or spellcheck.default_lang
 end
 
-local supress_stdout = ' >/dev/null'
-local supress_stderr = ' 2>/dev/null'
-local supress_output = supress_stdout .. supress_stderr
-if os.execute('type enchant' .. supress_output) then
+local which do
+  local path = os.getenv"PATH":gsub(":","/?;") .. "/?"
+  function which(executable)
+    return package.searchpath(executable, path, "", "")
+  end
+end
+
+if which"enchant" then
   spellcheck.cmd = 'enchant -d %s -a'
   spellcheck.list_cmd = 'enchant -l -d %s'
-elseif os.execute('type enchant-2' .. supress_output) then
+elseif which"enchant-2" then
   spellcheck.cmd = 'enchant-2 -d %s -a'
   spellcheck.list_cmd = 'enchant-2 -l -d %s'
-elseif os.execute('type aspell' .. supress_output) then
+elseif which"aspell" then
   spellcheck.cmd = 'aspell pipe -l %s'
   spellcheck.list_cmd = 'aspell list -l %s'
-elseif os.execute('type hunspell' .. supress_output) then
+elseif which"hunspell" then
   spellcheck.cmd = 'hunspell -d %s'
   spellcheck.list_cmd = 'hunspell -l -d %s'
 else
@@ -55,6 +59,8 @@ if vis.lexers then
   end
 end
 
+local supress_stderr = ' 2>/dev/null'
+
 -- Return nil or a sequence of misspelled words in a specific file range or text
 -- by calling the spellchecker's list command.
 -- If given a range we will use vis:pipe to get our typos from the spellchecker.
-- 
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