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Re: address@hidden: recent CVS has aspell error] |
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Wed, 25 Jan 2006 20:14:15 +0000 |
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Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Richard M. Stallman wrote:
>> Would someone please DTRT about this, and ack?
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> This same error was reported and discussed recently on help-gnu-emacs; see
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2005-12/msg00713.html
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2005-12/msg00759.html
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> So it seems likely that ispell-dictionary has been set incorrectly,
> perhaps in default.el or site-start.el.
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> What does `C-h v ispell-dictionary' display?
This variable is nil in the older working version of cvs-emacs
This variable does not exist in the newer broken version of cvs-emacs
> If you start emacs with
> the --no-init-file and --no-site-file command line options, does the
> problem still occur?
Yes, the problem is identical if I use those options.
I have read the email messages you pointed to and found a workaround: If I run
the command ispell-change-dictionary and select one of the options (e.g.
american) then spell checking starts working. This command creates
ispell-dictionary and sets it to nil and it creates the previous missing
ispell-local-dictionary and sets it to american.
This can be made permanent: Adding (setq ispell-dictionary "american") to my
~/.emacs causes ispell-dictionary to be set properly and it leaves
ispell-local-dictionary uncreated. After performing ispell-buffer, I notice
ispell-local-dictionary has been created and set to nil.
Conclusion: It seems there is a problem in the latest cvs version where
ispell-dictionary is not being created by default (and set to nil) and this
prevents ispell from working for me.
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