bug#8579: 24.0.50; ispell bug in `ispell-add-per-file-word-list'

[Dirk Ullrich]

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Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug.  If you can, give
a recipe starting from `emacs -Q':

* How to reproduce the bug:

Load a text file;
Enable `flyspell-mode'
Type a word not contained in the active Ispell dictionary, and place the
point just behind the word;
Run command `flyspell-correct-word-before-point',
and choose the option `Accept (Buffer)';

* Symptom:

Emacs signals an error:
flyspell-do-correct: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil

* Diagnosis:

`ispell.el's function `ispell-add-per-file-word-list' cannot handle a
`nil' value of the `comment-start' variable.

* A possible fix:

This is a fixed version of `ispell-add-per-file-word-list'.
It ignores the comment-related stuff if `comment-begin' (or
`comment-end') has value `nil'.

(defun ispell-add-per-file-word-list (word)
  "Add WORD to the per-file word list (fixed version)."
  (or ispell-buffer-local-name
      (setq ispell-buffer-local-name (buffer-name)))
  (save-excursion
    (goto-char (point-min))
    (let (line-okay search done found)
      (while (not done)
        (let ((case-fold-search nil))
          (setq search (search-forward ispell-words-keyword nil 'move)
              found (or found search)
              line-okay (< (+ (length word) 1 ; 1 for space after word..
                              (progn (end-of-line) (current-column)))
                             fill-column)))
        (if (or (and search line-okay)
                (null search))
            (progn
              (setq done t)
              (if (null search)
                  (progn
                    (open-line 1)
                    (unless found (newline))
                    (insert (if comment-start
                                (progn
                                  (if (fboundp 'comment-padright)
                                      ;; Try and use the proper comment marker,
                                      ;; e.g. ";;" rather than ";".
                                      (comment-padright comment-start
                                                        (comment-add nil))
                                    comment-start)
                                  " ")
                              "")
                            ispell-words-keyword)
                    (if (and comment-end (> (length comment-end) 0))
                        (save-excursion
                          (newline)
                          (insert comment-end)))))
              (insert (concat " " word))))))))

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
For information about debugging Emacs, please read the file
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/etc/DEBUG.


In GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.4)
 of 2011-04-28 on red
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11001000
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr' '--sysconfdir=/etc'
'--localstatedir=/var' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib'
'--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--without-sound' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk'
'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe'
'LDFLAGS=-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  flyspell-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f f l <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace>
<backspace> / t <tab> f l <tab> <return> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <S-down>
<S-down> <delete> <backspace> <up> <up> <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <left> <S-down> <S-down> <insert>
<delete> <backspace> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <insert>
C-x C-s M-x f l <backspace> <backspace> i s <tab> p
<tab> - <tab> w <tab> <return> ? ? ? ? e <backspace>
<backspace> <backspace> s s s s M-x <up> <down> f l
y <tab> s <tab> m <tab> <return> C-c $ <down-mouse-1>
<mouse-1> <up> <up> <up> <up> <up> <S-down> <S-down>
<S-down> <S-down> <S-down> <delete> <delete> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> M-x r e p o <tab> r
<tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Making completion list... [2 times]
Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
Checking spelling of GGG...
You can run the command `ispell-word' with M-$
Making completion list...
Flyspell mode enabled
flyspell-do-correct: Wrong type argument: char-or-string-p, nil
Auto-saving...
Mark set
Making completion list...

Load-path shadows:
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/coq-db hides
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ProofGeneral/coq/coq-db
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/coq-syntax hides
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ProofGeneral/coq/coq-syntax
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/coq hides
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ProofGeneral/coq/coq
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/erc/erc-hecomplete hides
/usr/share/emacs/24.0.50/lisp/obsolete/erc-hecomplete

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr message idna sendmail format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 rfc2047 rfc2045
ietf-drums mailabbrev mail-utils gmm-utils mailheader emacsbug url-util
url-parse auth-source eieio byte-opt bytecomp byte-compile cconv
macroexp assoc gnus-util time-date password-cache url-vars mm-util
mail-prsvr flyspell regexp-opt ispell help-mode easymenu view vc-git
tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar
dnd fontset image fringe lisp-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow
timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu
font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan
thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak czech
european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces
cus-face files text-properties overlay md5 base64 format env code-pages
mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
make-network-process dbusbind dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)