From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ispell gives "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 15:16:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: <97a2af2815ec71310a810b7e405fd315@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1135981047 29241 80.91.229.2 (30 Dec 2005 22:17:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 22:17:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 30 23:17:23 2005 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsSYm-0007Uy-Lr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:17:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsSaC-0003e9-TR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EsSZk-0003a6-IK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:18:16 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EsSZi-0003XG-Gb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:18:15 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EsSZh-0003X3-B6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:18:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA:16) (Exim 4.34) id 1EsSaH-0002kt-KX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:18:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EsSYD-0007OV-0h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:16:41 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:16:41 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:16:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:32313 Archived-At: Jeff D. Hamann wrote: > (setq ispell-dictionary "C:/ispell/dic/american.hash") That is not a valid value for ispell-dictionary. `M-x ispell-change-dictionary' followed by `?' lists these options in the *Completions* buffer: american brasileiro british castellano castellano8 czech dansk default deutsch deutsch8 english esperanto esperanto-tex francais francais-tex francais7 german german8 italiano nederlands nederlands8 norsk norsk7-tex polish portugues russian slovak svenska > ;; set something... > (assoc ispell-dictionary ispell-dictionary-alist) That has no effect whatsoever, so leave it out. -- Kevin