From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Brubeck Unhammer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ispell default dictionary keeps reverting to "american" Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 10:27:12 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1188754032.747790.186270@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> References: <1188730937.948851.317630@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188754911 10588 80.91.229.12 (2 Sep 2007 17:41:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:41:51 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 02 19:41:51 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IRtSH-0001wb-JX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 19:41:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IRtSG-0002yi-Gq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:41:48 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.236.215.103 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1188754032 4879 127.0.0.1 (2 Sep 2007 17:27:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 17:27:12 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Opera/9.23 (X11; Linux i686; U; nb),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=84.236.215.103; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151580 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:47103 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa skreiv: > Is the nynorsk dictionary installed on your Ubuntu system? What are > the values of ispell-local-dictionary and ispell-library-directory? ispell-local-dictionary is nil on a fresh startup (as it should be), then "american" after the first spellcheck. ispell-dictionary, OTOH, is "nynorsk" on a fresh startup and "american" after the first spellcheck. According to the description of this variable, it should be used to set ispell-local-dictionary to "nynorsk"... > What is GNU Emacs showing in *Completions* buffer when you type > > M-x ispell-change-dictionary RET TAB > > The values shown are the dictionaries found on your system in the > directory pointed by ispell-library-directory. Possible completions are: american bokmal british canadian default english norsk norsk7-tex nynorsk > Have you checked whether the modes of the buffers that use american > for ispell do *not* change ispell-dictionary? Have you checked > whether your buffer do *not* set ispell-dictionary locally? Are you > sure that your setting of ispell-dictionary in ~/.emacs is executed? > Some (message ...) might help. I tried emptying my .emacs from all but (ispell-change-dictionary "nynorsk" t), no change... the dictionary starts being "nynorsk" and changes to "american" after one ispell-check.