From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rupert Swarbrick Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Cannot open load file: ispell Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:37:28 -0600 Message-ID: <0tGdndLlP9VFEwfanZ2dnUVZ8gOdnZ2d@giganews.com> References: <4a402892-3cc5-4818-b77c-e9ffab78f3c4@m34g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <874pd1iize.fsf@gnu.org> <2c392bb1-76d9-4d80-910c-ab69fc364ef8@i7g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201311641 24424 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2008 01:40:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:40:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 26 02:41:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JIa2V-0007F8-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:40:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JIa24-0007nd-F4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:37:28 -0600 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) Original-Lines: 30 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-X-Trace: sv3-Cj6OpHjlQE+4qiQli7URBmGvYw0qcmXbeWLYEWMc1fUGU1xzsrMFCxTYV7qb7QiFsXjVSm3cItHXc68!GdmaEidu9MgyDB54Ls8zDq9iybe2ydHarsdLAfraIoTLYWu5alrnT3BT3pu//ZzCNG5ssuT4 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.37 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155587 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50972 Archived-At: On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:52:23 -0800, Ulrich Scholz wrote: > Nope, does not work: > > scholz@binge:~/Forschung/Arbeiten/2008/Invarianten$ type ispell ispell > is /usr/bin/ispell > > Added (setq load-path (append (list "/usr/bin") load-path)) to > .gnu-emacs-custom > (and this is evaluated in deed) > > The error remains > > Ulrich Hi, Emacs actually needs an elisp file called ispell.el. On my debian system it's at /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el. ispell.el does the interfacing with /usr/bin/ispell and /usr/bin doesn't need to be on your load path. Maybe try a locate command to find the lisp file? The reason emacs doesn't say "Can't find ispell.el" is that it's able to load precompiled elisp too, so it might equally be looking for ispell.elc : "can't load ispell.el" would be misleading in that case. Rupert