Ispell doesn't show all dictionaries

Ispell doesn't show all dictionaries

[Maikol]

 Hello guys,

I'm almost new using Emacs and I'm having some troubles with ispell.
If I run emacs normally and try to change the ispell dictionary (M-x
ispell-change-dictionary) I only get these options

american     default
english     francais.


But, if I run "emacs -Q" (the lightest way to run emacs, thought) I get all
the installed dictionaries in my computer


american     american-variant_0     american-variant_1
american-w_accents     american-wo_accents     brasileiro
british     british-ise     british-ise-w_accents
british-ise-wo_accents     british-ize     british-ize-w_accents
british-ize-wo_accents     british-variant_0     british-variant_1
british-w_accents     british-wo_accents     canadian
canadian-variant_0     canadian-variant_1     canadian-w_accents
canadian-wo_accents     castellano     castellano8
czech     dansk     default
deutsch     deutsch8    ...  and a long etc ...

 Could someone help me to figure it out what happened and how to fix it?

Best regards,

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Maikol

Re: Ispell doesn't show all dictionaries

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.06.2013 um 11:31 schrieb Maikol:

> Could someone help me to figure it out what happened and how to fix it?

What happens when you launch GNU Emacs with -q instead of -Q? Do you see more or less dictionaries than with -Q?

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Re: Ispell doesn't show all dictionaries

[Maikol]

Hello Pete,


> What happens when you launch GNU Emacs with -q instead of -Q?
> Do you see more or less dictionaries than with -Q?
>

No, unfortunately I don't :

emacs -q
M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET SPC
american     default
english     francais

Best regards

Re: Ispell doesn't show all dictionaries

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.06.2013 um 13:37 schrieb Maikol:

> Hello Pete,
> 
> 
>> What happens when you launch GNU Emacs with -q instead of -Q?
>> Do you see more or less dictionaries than with -Q?
>> 
> 
> No, unfortunately I don't :
> 
> emacs -q
> M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET SPC
> american     default
> english     francais
> 
> Best regards


So the conclusion is that your system's init file (by the name of site-init.el or site-start.el) is blanking out the other Ispell dictionaries. Locate that file, check its contents, correct, maybe remove that file!

Launching GNU Emacs with -q lets it load only the system init file.
Launching GNU Emacs with -Q lets it load no init file.


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Re: Ispell doesn't show all dictionaries

[Maikol]

I
f
ound it in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el. It seems that the
problem is in these lines,

;;
> ;; Preload dynamic (i)Spell menu
> ;; -----------------------------
> (if (not (load "/usr/lib/ispell/ispell-emacs-menu.el" t t))
>   (let ((aspells (file-expand-wildcards "/usr/lib/aspell*")))
>     (dolist (aspell aspells)
>       (if (and (stringp aspell)
>                (file-exists-p aspell))
>         (load "ispell" nil t)))))
>

What do you think?

B
est regards.

Re: Ispell doesn't show all dictionaries

[Maikol]

I commented these lines and now it works perfectly.

Thanks for your help Pete.

Regards,

Re: Ispell doesn't show all dictionaries

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.06.2013 um 13:52 schrieb Maikol:

>> (if (not (load "/usr/lib/ispell/ispell-emacs-menu.el" t t))
> 

AFAIU: if GNU Emacs cannot load the file, it turns into "aspell mode" (otherwise ispell). Commenting will work until the next system update. Then the edited /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el file might get overwritten…

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