Re: ispell in Debian lenny problem

[Joost Kremers]

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.


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