bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon

bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon

[stucker]

Hi, I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, NS
apple-appkit-949.46) on OS X 10.5.8.

When I launch emacs from the terminal with

$ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs &

I can use ispell as expected.

However, if I launch emacs by clicking on its icon - which presumably points
to the same binary file -
I get the following error:

apply: Searching for program: No such file or directory, ispell

Ispell is on my load path
("/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/"); even when I
do one of the following I get the same error:

(load "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/ispell")
(add-to-list 'load-path
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes")

The fact that it works if I launch the same application with the same .emacs
file from the terminal (no -Q option necessary) leads me to believe that the
conflict is not in any of my settings.

Thanks much!
-Stephen

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bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon

[Magnus Henoch]

The problem is that Emacs can't find the `ispell' binary, probably
because of different PATH settings.  Try customising
ispell-program-name, setting it to the full path of ispell.

Magnus

bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon

[Glenn Morris]

reassign 4684 emacs,ns
stop

stucker wrote:

> Hi, I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, NS
> apple-appkit-949.46) on OS X 10.5.8.
>
> When I launch emacs from the terminal with
>
> $ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs &
>
> I can use ispell as expected.
>
> However, if I launch emacs by clicking on its icon - which presumably points
> to the same binary file -
> I get the following error:
>
> apply: Searching for program: No such file or directory, ispell

See the section "Grabbing environment variables" in the Mac OS /
GNUstep chapter of the Emacs manual. PATH is the issue here.

bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon

[stucker]

Magnus Henoch wrote:
> 
> The problem is that Emacs can't find the `ispell' binary, probably
> because of different PATH settings.  Try customising
> ispell-program-name, setting it to the full path of ispell.
> 
> Magnus
> 

Sorry, I was away on travel and my wireless card seemed to have died...
But thank you for the response. I did set 
(custom-set-variables
 '(ispell-program-name 
   "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/ispell"))
and also to ispell.elc instead of ispell

but in either case this does not seem to work. The strange thing is that it
doesn't work only when I launch Emacs through the icon... when I launch
emacs from the terminal, it finds ispell just fine.

Stephen





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bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon

[Fabien Tricoire]

Same problem here (but when calling flyspell-mode). I updated /etc/ 
paths as explained in the Emacs manual, it does not help.  
Interestingly enough, M-! ispell works, but M-x ispell or M-x flyspell- 
mode do not work.