Re: ispell gives "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"

["Jeff D. Hamann" <jeff.hamann@forestinformatics.com>]

So when I added (and I rarely mess with my .emacs file) the following line:

(add-hook 'tex-mode-hook (function (lambda () (setq ispell-parser 'tex))))
(setq ispell-dictionary "C:/ispell/dic/american.hash")
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (flyspell-mode 1)))

;; set something...
(assoc ispell-dictionary ispell-dictionary-alist)


I still got the same results...

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  looking-at(nil)
  ispell-get-word(nil)
  ispell-word(nil nil nil)
* call-interactively(ispell-word)

ugh..... am I doing something totally lame-o or is this a bug?

Jeff.


"Kevin Rodgers" <> wrote in message 
news:mailman.20694.1135794740.20277.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> Peter Dyballa wrote:
> > Am 27.12.2005 um 07:55 schrieb Jeff D. Hamann:
> >
> >> With ispell (3.2.02 from
> >> http://www.fsci.fuk.kindai.ac.jp/aftp/pub/ptex/utils/ ) yields,
> >>
> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
> >>   looking-at(nil)
> >>   ispell-get-word(nil)
> >>   ispell-word(nil nil nil)
> >>   call-interactively(ispell-word)
> >
> >
> > Here obviously the function looking-at() receives something bad:
> >
> >     looking-at is a built-in function in `C source code'.
> >     (looking-at regexp)
> >
> >     Return t if text after point matches regular expression regexp.
> >     This function modifies the match data that `match-beginning',
> >     `match-end' and `match-data' access; save and restore the match
> >     data if you want to preserve them.
> >
> > Could be you did not set up ispell-dictionary, ispell-program-name,
> > ispell-extra-args, or ispell-local-dictionary-alist in case
> > ispell-dictionary-alist is not sufficient?
>
> That seems likely: ispell-get-word calls looking-at several times, with
> the result of calling ispell-get-casechars and ispell-get-otherchars as
> the REGEXP.  Those functions in turn depend on ispell-dictionary having
> been set:  (assoc ispell-dictionary ispell-dictionary-alist)
>
> -- 
> Kevin
>
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