ispell in Debian lenny problem

ispell in Debian lenny problem

[Christian Herenz]

Hi,

I am using in SUSE Linux the following in my .emacs, and it works:

      (setq ispell-dictionary "german")
      (setq ispell-local-dictionary "german")
      (setq flyspell-default-dictionary "german")

In Debian Lenny the dictionary is called ngerman and I use the same as above, 
only with "ngerman" instead of german. The problem now is, that spell checking 
wont work on emacs in lenny. When doing "ispell-buffer" I get the error (in 
*Messages*):

Starting new Ispell process [ngerman] ...
Spell-checking test using ispell with ngerman dictionary...
Spell-checking test using ispell with ngerman dictionary done
ispell-get-line: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

No spell chacking takes place :-(
What is wrong?

Greetings,
Christian

Re: ispell in Debian lenny problem

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.09.2009 um 13:24 schrieb Christian Herenz:

> Starting new Ispell process [ngerman] ...
> Spell-checking test using ispell with ngerman dictionary...
> Spell-checking test using ispell with ngerman dictionary done
> ispell-get-line: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

This looks more like ispell is trying to read the file (or buffer) to  
spell-check and fails. So it should not be related to the new  
dictionary.

>
> No spell chacking takes place :-(
> What is wrong?


I don't know. You may try the same with some English dialect. What is  
your ispell-personal-dictionary?

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   Pete

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Re: ispell in Debian lenny problem

[Christian Herenz]

Peter Dyballa schrieb:

>> No spell chacking takes place :-(
>> What is wrong?
> 
> 
> I don't know. You may try the same with some English dialect. What is 
> your ispell-personal-dictionary?
> 
Strangly American works:
      (setq ispell-dictionary "american")
      (setq ispell-local-dictionary "american")
      (setq flyspell-default-dictionary "american")

I have not set a ispell-personal-dictionary (Its value is nil).

I am really lost :-( I am not so good at typing, and I make a lot of mistakes, 
so without ispell (flyspell) I cannot really work :-(

I hope you can help.

Greetings,
Christian

Re: ispell in Debian lenny problem

[TonyMc]

Christian Herenz <herenz@physik.hu-berlin.de> writes:

> Strangly American works:
>      (setq ispell-dictionary "american")
>      (setq ispell-local-dictionary "american")
>      (setq flyspell-default-dictionary "american")
>
> I have not set a ispell-personal-dictionary (Its value is nil).

Does American ispell accept "strangly"?  

Tony

Re: ispell in Debian lenny problem

[Joost Kremers]

Christian Herenz wrote:
> I am using in SUSE Linux the following in my .emacs, and it works:
>
>       (setq ispell-dictionary "german")
>       (setq ispell-local-dictionary "german")
>       (setq flyspell-default-dictionary "german")
>
> In Debian Lenny the dictionary is called ngerman and I use the same as above, 
> only with "ngerman" instead of german. The problem now is, that spell checking 
> wont work on emacs in lenny. When doing "ispell-buffer" I get the error (in 
> *Messages*):
>
> Starting new Ispell process [ngerman] ...
> Spell-checking test using ispell with ngerman dictionary...
> Spell-checking test using ispell with ngerman dictionary done
> ispell-get-line: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil

are you sure the dictionary is called "ngerman"? why do you think it is? have
you tried using "german"? type M-x ispell-change-dictionary and then hit TAB to
see what dictionaries Emacs actually knows about.


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Re: ispell in Debian lenny problem

[Christian Herenz]

Joost Kremers schrieb:

> are you sure the dictionary is called "ngerman"? why do you think it is? have
> you tried using "german"? type M-x ispell-change-dictionary and then hit TAB to
> see what dictionaries Emacs actually knows about.
> 
> 

Thats it! The name of the dictionary is german-new. However the file is called 
ngerman, thats why I made the wrong decission.

Thanks very much!

Greetings,
Christian