On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 06:11:56PM +0100, Agustin Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 04:16:53PM -0500, Glenn Morris wrote:
> > Akim Demaille wrote:
> > 
> > > I have recently upgraded my Emacs from 22.2.1 to 24.2.1, and there is
> > > a feature I lost: I could use ispell-personal-dictionary to specify a
> > > per-document *local* (i.e., relative to the directory of the file)
> > > dictionary.
> > 
> > Presumably due to 2010-09-02 changes to ispell-init-process for
> > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=6143
> > 
> > Perhaps a file-name-absolute-p check for various variables could be
> > file-local could be added to that.
> > 
> > > | %%% ispell-dictionary: "american"
> > > | %%% ispell-personal-dictionary: "../en.dict"
> 
> Actual problem happens in `ispell-start-process' where the string to be
> passed to the spellchecker as personal dictionary is expanded,
> 
> (if ispell-current-personal-dictionary ; Use specified pers dict.
>     (list "-p" (expand-file-name ispell-current-personal-dictionary)))
> 
> and is indeed affected by the changes in `default-dictionary' coming from
> `ispell-init-process`.
> 
> I think the only reason for that `expand-file-name' is the tilde expansion
> in non-UNIX systems. In UNIX systems tilde can be explicitly passed. 
> Not sure if the directory {forward,back}slash is also related to this.
> 
> I am thinking about expanding `ispell-current-personal-dictionary' string
> only if it contains a tilde prefix.

I am now playing with something different, preserve original value of
`default-directory' in `current-ispell-directory' variable and expand 
personal dictionary after it if no absolute path or tilde is used. 

I think this is a better approach, see attached patch.

Let me test this a bit more before committing. Feel free to test it too.

-- 
Agustin