From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6539: ispell-complete-word looks for wrong file (at least on w32) Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:04:11 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20100630103826.GA3847@agmartin.aq.upm.es> <837hlgbf5v.fsf@gnu.org> <831vbob5qz.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277934253 29916 80.91.229.12 (30 Jun 2010 21:44:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:44:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6539@debbugs.gnu.org, agustin6martin@gmail.com To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 30 23:44:11 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OU54l-0001qM-9e for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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The default for ispell-alternate-dictionary is not a full >> >> path on w32 so that is a bug. >> > >> > How would you suggest to fix this "bug"? =C2=A0I see only 2 possibilit= ies >> > (besides leaving this as they are and letting w32 users customize the >> > value, as I did): either (a) signal an error, or (b) search the entire >> > hard disk storage for a file named `words'. >> >> I would perhaps suggest leaving it as nil on w32. That would make it >> more clear that this is not a left over from unix systems, but rather >> something a user must setup on w32 systems to make it work. > > Then you'd see > > =C2=A0 Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) > > Is that really better? Hm, maybe not. Then perhaps a suitable file name for w32 is better? An accompanying explanatory message would of course be even better.