From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ispell gives "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:11:12 +0200 Message-ID: <57adbca088aff67876cd80151d3b9c2e@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129245250 27495 80.91.229.2 (13 Oct 2005 23:14:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 23:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 14 01:14:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQCFz-0003lA-FV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:13:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQCFy-0007hr-Hs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EQCEK-0007Wz-Ti for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EQCEH-0007W7-1b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EQCEG-0007W3-2B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.226] (helo=smtp08.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1EQCEF-0003rU-Q7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2005 19:11:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [84.245.189.185] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.105 #317) id 1EQCEE-0006io-00; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 01:11:14 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: "Jeff D. Hamann" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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:30217 Archived-At: Am 13.10.2005 um 18:42 schrieb Jeff D. Hamann: > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > re-search-forward(nil 3 t) > ispell-get-line(2 3 3) > byte-code("=08b=1B,HF =C7=1B(B =C8 \n=C6=1B=1C=1D=1E=18=19=1E=19=0E=1A= =C9=3D=A7 > > I'm not sure where to go from here... > Me too! I remember that I've seen this myself recently -- and I think=20 this only happens when ispell-program-name is aspell, the new standard=20= in GNU Emacs 22. Are sure that (setq ispell-dictionary "C:/ispell/dic/american.hash") is correct? What values do you see when go 'Tools menu -> Spell=20 Checking -> Change Dictionary' and then press space? I think you should=20= use a name without path component and without extension, just one of=20 the elements in that list of *Completions*, which should reflect what=20 your system offers. In theory aspell should know where its dictionaries are on disk (if=20 not, then there's ispell-aspell-dict-dir). The dictionary's name isn't=20= the technical thing with an extension, it's rather its purpose. -- Greetings Pete Bake Pizza not war!