Re: Incompatibility in emacs & aspell-0.60.4

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

djh wrote:
>>> The error message is displayed after the 2nd successfull
>>> (ispell-get-coding-system) upon trying to do another step.  See below:
>>> File; ispell.el
>>> Line: # 2535
>>>         (set-process-coding-system ispell-process (ispell-get-coding-system)
>>>                                    (ispell-get-coding-system) ))
>>> ---------
>>> Result: iso-8859-1 [2 times]
>>> error: "Input file descriptor of ispell closed"
>>> ---------
>>> I have sent out a similar not to the aspell group, but I want to ask if anyone 
>>> on this group has tried to use 
>>>
>>>    cvs emacs with aspell-0.60.4 
>>> and if so did you have the probelm I ran into?
> 
>> I am using cvs emacs with aspell 0.60.4, on GNU/Linux, and I don't
>> encounter any error.  The description you gave is not enough to work
>> with.  Please give a self-contained recipe for reproducing the
>> problem, starting from `emacs -q'.
> 
> Same result with emacs -q.
> 
> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i686-pc-cygwin, X toolkit) of 2006-08-29
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.21(0.156/4/2) 2006-07-30
> 
> Here is the self contained input to cause the error, iwthout fail, each time.
> 
> M-X ispell  <CR> 
> 
> --------
> RESULT displays:
> "Starting new Ispell process [default] ..."
> ispell-init-process: Error: nroff: dlopen returned "No such file or directory".
> 
> --------
> nroff does exist.  So why does yours work and mine doesn't?
> 
> This only happens when invoked from within emacs. Command line invocation seems to work fine.
> 
> Something between emacs and aspell is amiss.  But, I don't know where.  Help in finding it would be appreciated.

Was emacs invoked from the command line?  If you are invoking it via
a window manager, perhaps its environment was not initialized by your
shell's start up file, and that environment is being passed to aspell.

Why does ispell-init-process run nroff?

-- 
Kevin