From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 24.2.1: ispell: use of local ispell-personal-dictionary Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:02:25 +0100 Message-ID: <87d2yy8du6.fsf@web.de> References: <87boenu2r5.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1354082511 15802 80.91.229.3 (28 Nov 2012 06:01:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 06:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Akim Demaille To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 28 07:02:03 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Tdaig-0004oX-Qz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:02:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55013 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdaiV-0003ne-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:01:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42053) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdaiQ-0003nZ-NI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:01:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdaiP-00036F-Ta for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:01:46 -0500 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.4]:55154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TdaiP-00035I-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:01:45 -0500 Original-Received: from drachen.dragon ([89.204.130.209]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb102) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0MeBDG-1TsWXQ4B9a-00Q5IT; Wed, 28 Nov 2012 07:01:43 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Akim Demaille In-Reply-To: (Akim Demaille's message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:59:46 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.50 (gnu/linux) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:UYvXp9iMFU3zT8RheHzNazfwNRoG5meVIh4/HFLxV7n Gr9z0C48OvZl5vcizNGevcaV9naE5hN3rX1P6B2O9a/uY8PElv URIc+um/DEKxW5UATiwMcRIdyvFwlnXkI7r6iSHbS/WweL/uep jZf75PBAlyjk0gIMRHW9diP4pcPYZTJ85tya7zFSnlhs0u63Lh JK2vP60n7UswTkwFVVvGQVDQKhJLk43GToZ6taQpkI= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.15.4 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87919 Archived-At: Akim Demaille writes: > > your file local variable `ispell-personal-dictionary' is bound to the > > string "../en.dict" when you open your file. Note that no expansion of > > the ".." takes place. Whether this string later is interpreted as > > intended or not is just luck=E2=80=A6 > > But it used to work. This looks very much like a regression to me. I didn't mean that the behavior was not useful. But it was never documented, so it was just luck that it worked. Note that something like "../en.dict" is not a filename. It can be expanded to a filename. For many other variables Emacs assumes that they are bound to (expanded) filenames, and relative names are not allowed. Why don't you file a feature request (M-x report-emacs-bug)? Just explain what you wrote here. Regards, Michael.