From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#12784: spell check does not work Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:49:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5093504C.7000903@math.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351839023 22498 80.91.229.3 (2 Nov 2012 06:50:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 06:50:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 12784@debbugs.gnu.org To: Patrick Guidotti Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 02 07:50:32 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB5H-0000Ip-J5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 07:50:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49310 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB59-0007UW-3t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:50:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54389) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB56-0007UE-GH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:50:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB55-0007oo-MB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:33770) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB55-0007oj-J6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:50:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB7l-00030l-N8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:53:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:53:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 12784 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 12784-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B12784.135183916211549 (code B ref 12784); Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:53:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 12784) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Nov 2012 06:52:42 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44021 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB7R-00030C-HF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:52:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:34361) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB7O-000304-Eh for 12784@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:52:39 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TUB4g-00071Y-Nr; Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:49:50 -0400 X-Spook: investigation clones digicash anthrax 9705 Samford Road X-Ran: |>A:>g[>\D{7Uyj3G$R\5n/0S?D~."o`d!$(#*%zl(q-#wC*??gZ=y|w1|)#8}Tb36HcT& X-Hue: white X-Attribution: GM In-Reply-To: <5093504C.7000903@math.uci.edu> (Patrick Guidotti's message of "Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:47:08 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:66334 Archived-At: Patrick Guidotti wrote: > tried to use spell check in auctex environment and obtained follwing > error message: wrong type argument: stringp, nil. > > In GNU Emacs 22.3.2 (i386-apple-darwin9.5.0, Carbon Version 1.6.0) This is a very old version of Emacs. The latest is 24.2. Updating may help. > ispell-check-version: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Please do M-x toggle-debug-on-error, repear the error, and post the backtrace. What is the value of ispell-program-name?