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spell check does not work

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From: Patrick Guidotti <gpatrick <at> math.uci.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: spell check does not work
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:47:08 -0700

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)
of 2008-09-21 on plume.sr.unh.edu - Aquamacs Distribution 1.5
Windowing system distributor `Apple Inc.', version 10.8.2
configured using `configure '--without-x' '--prefix=/usr/local''

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: en_US.UTF-8
locale-coding-system: utf-8
default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: PDFLaTeX/F

Minor modes in effect:
reftex-mode: t
TeX-fold-mode: t
TeX-PDF-mode: t
savehist-mode: t
smart-frame-positioning-mode: t
global-visual-line-mode: t
visual-line-mode: t
recentf-mode: t
encoded-kbd-mode: t
osx-key-mode: t
tabbar-mwheel-mode: t
tabbar-mode: t
show-paren-mode: t
delete-selection-mode: t
pc-selection-mode: t
cua-mode: t
tooltip-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
column-number-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
C-x C-f t e <tab> j <tab> j <tab> a c <tab> a c <tab>
t e <tab> <return> M-x i s p e l l - b u f f e r <return>
<help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo>
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <Command> <Spell> M-x r e p
o r t - e m a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Loading reftex-dcr...done
Automatic display of crossref information was turned on
Loading preview...done
Applying style hooks... done
Loading ispell...done
Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
ispell-check-version: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Starting new Ispell process [default] ...
ispell-check-version: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
Loading emacsbug...done

-- 
Patrick Guidotti
Vice Chair for Graduate Studies

Department of Mathematics
University of California Irvine
Rowland Hall 410F
Irvine, CA 92697-3875

tel: 949-824-1266
fax: 949-824-7993
email: gpatrick <at> math.uci.edu
url: http://www.math.uci.edu/~gpatrick

Message #8 received at 12784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Patrick Guidotti <gpatrick <at> math.uci.edu>
Cc: 12784 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12784: spell check does not work
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:49:50 -0400

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?

Message #13 received at 12784-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 12784-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12784: spell check does not work
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2012 11:49:00 -0400

Patrick Guidotti wrote (on Fri, 2 Nov 2012 at 07:24 -0700):

> Thank you very much! I have installed a newer version and indeed the
> problem is not present. Btw the variable ispell-program-name is not
> found [no match].

Thanks for letting us know (off-list).

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