Bug 91937
| Summary: | Flyspell broken in emacs 21.3-5 | ||||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide | Reporter: | Darren Brierton <darren> | ||||||||
| Component: | emacs | Assignee: | Jens Petersen <petersen> | ||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> | ||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||
| Version: | 1.0 | CC: | srevivo | ||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-01-14 07:52:03 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||
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I'm not familiar with flyspell, can you give an explicit example of how to reproduce the problem? Can you reproduce the problem in a vanilla emacs started with say "emacs -q"? Currently `ispell-program-name' should be being set to aspell in "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el". Perhaps you have `inhibit-default-init' non-nil? Start emacs (21.3-5) using emacs -q. Emacs loads with banner. Click on banner to clear it, and drop into *scratch* buffer. Right click on mode line on (Lisp Interaction) and select Flyspell from pop up menu. Result: emacs beeps and prints: Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell This does NOT happen with the previous build of emacs 21.3 from Rawhide. Can you attach your .emacs and "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el" files, please? A quick fix is just to add (setq ispell-program-name "aspell") to your .emacs file. Okay, I'll attach ~/.emacs.el, ~/.emacs.customize.el (the file that customize writes to) and my /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el next, but shouldn't emacs -q cause emacs to ignore those files? Created attachment 92126 [details]
My ~/.emacs.el file
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My ~/.emacs.customize.el file
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My /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el
And which version of aspell do you have? No "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/aspell-init.el" I take it? Anyway, in the next built I will bring back the above ispell-program-name setting in site-start.el, since I agreed with the aspell pkg owner that site-start.el should carry the setting. Thanks for the report. Aha! It's all Ximian's fault! I installed their Evolution 1.3.92, which required the removal of the original RHL9 aspell package and the installation of theirs: $ rpm -q aspell aspell-0.50.3-1.ximian.2 $ ls /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/aspell-init.el ls: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/aspell-init.el: No such file or directory (Although the ispell-program-name setting in site-start.el which was removed for 21.3-5 but was presumably in the previous 21.3 Rawhide package explains why it was only with this package of 21.3 that I had this problem.) I just tried the new emacs packages on Raw Hide (21.3-6, dated 5th June) and the problem is not solved - naturally I can work around the problem by adding: (setq ispell-program-name "aspell") to my ~/.emacs, but if I comment that line out and start emacs then I get the same old error (Searching for program: no such file or directory, ispell). I wasn't sure if this release was meant to fix this or not, so I thought I'd better just let you know. I think the latest aspell package contains the ispell compatibility wrapper again. So I believe is now working ok out of the box. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030509 Description of problem: I'm running a complete install of a fully up2date Red Hat Linux 9, but have been very selectively trying some packages from Rawhide - notably emacs, mozilla and epiphany. Emacs 21.3-1 (from Rawhide previously) works absolutely fine. However, upgrading to 21.3-5 breaks flyspell. It complains that there is no such program "ispell". I can provide further detail of my .emacs, etc. if needed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): emacs-21.3-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install emacs-21.3-5, emacs-el-21.3-5, and emacs-leim-21.3-5. 2. Start emacs. 3. Load any file whose mode would start flyspell. Actual Results: Emacs won't load the file and complains that it can't find ispell. Expected Results: Emacs would load the file and turn on flyspell.