Cannot open load file: ispell

Cannot open load file: ispell

[Ulrich Scholz]

Dear all,

after an upgrade of my Kubuntu I get the error

  Cannot open load file: ispell

I'm not really sure what action of mine caused ispell to stop
working.  Neither I'm sure what to report.  Any suggestion is
appreciated.  Ispell is, of course, installed.

Thanks,

Ulrich


This is GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.3)
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Re: Cannot open load file: ispell

[Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo]

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Ulrich Scholz em gnu.emacs.help escreveu :

>   Cannot open load file: ispell



Only make sure that is in the load-path.



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Re: Cannot open load file: ispell

[Ulrich Scholz]

Nope, does not work:

scholz@binge:~/Forschung/Arbeiten/2008/Invarianten$ type ispell
ispell is /usr/bin/ispell

Added (setq load-path (append (list "/usr/bin") load-path))
to .gnu-emacs-custom
(and this is evaluated in deed)

The error remains

Ulrich

Re: Cannot open load file: ispell

[Rupert Swarbrick]

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:52:23 -0800, Ulrich Scholz wrote:

> Nope, does not work:
> 
> scholz@binge:~/Forschung/Arbeiten/2008/Invarianten$ type ispell ispell
> is /usr/bin/ispell
> 
> Added (setq load-path (append (list "/usr/bin") load-path)) to
> .gnu-emacs-custom
> (and this is evaluated in deed)
> 
> The error remains
> 
> Ulrich

Hi,

Emacs actually needs an elisp file called ispell.el. On my debian
system it's
at /usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el.

ispell.el does the interfacing with /usr/bin/ispell and /usr/bin
doesn't need to be on your load path.

Maybe try a locate command to find the lisp file? The reason emacs 
doesn't say "Can't find ispell.el" is that it's able to load
precompiled elisp too, so it might equally be looking for ispell.elc :
"can't load ispell.el" would be misleading in that case.

Rupert

Re: Cannot open load file: ispell

[Mike Mattie]

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On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:52:23 -0800 (PST)
Ulrich Scholz <d5@thispla.net> wrote:

> Nope, does not work:
> 
> scholz@binge:~/Forschung/Arbeiten/2008/Invarianten$ type ispell
> ispell is /usr/bin/ispell
> 
> Added (setq load-path (append (list "/usr/bin") load-path))
> to .gnu-emacs-custom
> (and this is evaluated in deed)
> 
> The error remains
> 
> Ulrich

load-path is a list of directories that contain elisp files. exec-path is analgous to PATH
where programs loaded by the system loader are found. My copy of ispell.el was installed
with Emacs itself. Fixing or upgrading your Emacs could provide a working ispell without
modifying your .emacs file.
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Re: Cannot open load file: ispell

[Ulrich Scholz]

Wigh find I found emacs.el.  Adding its path to the Emacs load-path
solved the problem.

I have no clue why ispell.el isn't in the load path in the first
place.

Thanks,

Ulrich

Re: Cannot open load file: ispell

[Michael D. Vose]

I don't know beans about fixing emacs... but the following is in my
.emacs file and I do recall that putting it there seemed to concide
with having some problems go away...

(autoload 'ispell-word "ispell" "Check the spelling of word in buffer." t)
(autoload 'ispell-region "ispell" "Check the spelling of region." t)
(autoload 'ispell-buffer "ispell" "Check the spelling of buffer." t)

Good luck,

Michael

Re: Cannot open load file: ispell

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 28.01.2008 um 16:18 schrieb Michael D. Vose:

> (autoload 'ispell-word "ispell" "Check the spelling of word in  
> buffer." t)
> (autoload 'ispell-region "ispell" "Check the spelling of region." t)
> (autoload 'ispell-buffer "ispell" "Check the spelling of buffer." t)

Modern Emacsen should accept one line and do the right thing:

	(setq ispell-program-name "ispell")	; or aspell

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