bug#31341: 26.1; setting ispell-base-dicts-override-alist no longer working

[Anders Johansson]

A recipe for testing. Putting the following code in a file 
ispell-test.el and running ‘emacs -Q l ispell-test.el‘ gives a 
positive result for ispell.el byte-compiled without 
lexical-binding and negative result with lexical binding.
It also works to just add (defvar 
ispell-base-dicts-override-alist) in ispell.el.

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(load-library "ispell")

(add-hook 'ispell-initialize-spellchecker-hook 
#'ispell-extra-dicts-test)

(defun ispell-extra-dicts-test ()
 (setq ispell-base-dicts-override-alist
       '(("en_GB,sv_SE"
          "[[:alpha:]]" "[^[:alpha:]]"
          "[’'´.0-b:-]" t ("-d" "en_GB,sv_SE")
          nil utf-8))))

(ispell-set-spellchecker-params)

(if (assoc "en_GB,sv_SE" ispell-dictionary-alist)
   (message "It worked!")
 (message "it didn’t work"))

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On Wednesday  2 May 2018 at 18:46, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> 
wrote:

> Glenn Morris wrote:
>
> > Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> > > Does recompiling ispell.el without lexical-binding solve this 
> > > problem?
> >
> > I think using
> >
> > (defvar ispell-base-dicts-override-alist nil)
> >
> > (to mark the var as dynamic) would be better.
>
> Or rather just
>
> (defvar ispell-base-dicts-override-alist)


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Anders Johansson