From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joost Kremers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ispell in Debian lenny problem Date: 12 Sep 2009 18:00:19 GMT Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252780891 17337 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2009 18:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 18:41:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 12 20:41:24 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MmXXI-0002pi-CB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:41:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmXXH-0006SL-Qx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:41:23 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 1AXlAAlbBIhLF7hJV1c8gA7S4CYjfcxyE2lpWxxQ8NvT2l5tRe Cancel-Lock: sha1:7fpW6SvVc0+q6YfV168so7LWs9M= Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Editor: Emacs of course! User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9 (Linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172961 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68084 Archived-At: 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. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)