ispell/aspell problem

ispell/aspell problem

[Stefan Monnier]

I have the following backtrace when I try to change the dictionary.
The error comes from the fact that Emacs runs "ispell dicts" rather than
"aspell dicts".

The same kind of problem appears in ispell-get-aspell-config-value where we
also run ispell-program-name which may be "ispell" rather than "aspell".


        Stefan


Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening input file" "aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type" "/u/monnier/src/emacs/trunk/lisp/Error:/Error.dat")
  insert-file-contents("Error:/Error.dat")
  ispell-aspell-find-dictionary("Error:")
  mapcar(ispell-aspell-find-dictionary ("Error:" "Could" "not" "open" "the" "file" "\"dicts\"" "for" "reading."))
  ispell-find-aspell-dictionaries()
  ispell-valid-dictionary-list()
  (mapcar (function list) (ispell-valid-dictionary-list))
  (and (fboundp (quote ispell-valid-dictionary-list)) (mapcar (function list) (ispell-valid-dictionary-list)))
  (completing-read "Use new dictionary (RET for current, SPC to complete): " (and (fboundp ...) (mapcar ... ...)) nil t)
  (list (completing-read "Use new dictionary (RET for current, SPC to complete): " (and ... ...) nil t) current-prefix-arg)
  call-interactively(ispell-change-dictionary t nil)
  execute-extended-command(nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)

Re: ispell/aspell problem

[Magnus Henoch]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> I have the following backtrace when I try to change the dictionary.
> The error comes from the fact that Emacs runs "ispell dicts" rather than
> "aspell dicts".
>
> The same kind of problem appears in ispell-get-aspell-config-value where we
> also run ispell-program-name which may be "ispell" rather than "aspell".

So the "ispell" command being run is actually aspell?  Which version?

The default value for ispell-program-name should find the real
aspell...

Magnus

Re: ispell/aspell problem

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I have the following backtrace when I try to change the dictionary.
>> The error comes from the fact that Emacs runs "ispell dicts" rather than
>> "aspell dicts".
>> 
>> The same kind of problem appears in ispell-get-aspell-config-value where we
>> also run ispell-program-name which may be "ispell" rather than "aspell".

> So the "ispell" command being run is actually aspell?  Which version?

   % ispell -v
   @(#) International Ispell Version 3.1.20 (but really Aspell 0.50.3)
   %


-- Stefan

PS: and BTW, I can't just upgrade it to 0.60, I'll have to wait until the
syadmins upgrade the system to Fedora Core 4 in some nebulous future
(they upgraded it to Fedora Core 2 last summer).