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ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon

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From: stucker <brown_emu <at> yahoo.com>
To: Bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 20:43:17 -0700 (PDT)

Hi, I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, NS
apple-appkit-949.46) on OS X 10.5.8.

When I launch emacs from the terminal with

$ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs &

I can use ispell as expected.

However, if I launch emacs by clicking on its icon - which presumably points
to the same binary file -
I get the following error:

apply: Searching for program: No such file or directory, ispell

Ispell is on my load path
("/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/"); even when I
do one of the following I get the same error:

(load "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/ispell")
(add-to-list 'load-path
"/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes")

The fact that it works if I launch the same application with the same .emacs
file from the terminal (no -Q option necessary) leads me to believe that the
conflict is not in any of my settings.

Thanks much!
-Stephen

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From: Magnus Henoch <mange <at> freemail.hu>
To: stucker <brown_emu <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 4684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:39:58 +0100

The problem is that Emacs can't find the `ispell' binary, probably
because of different PATH settings.  Try customising
ispell-program-name, setting it to the full path of ispell.

Magnus

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: stucker <brown_emu <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 4684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:08:33 -0400

reassign 4684 emacs,ns
stop

stucker wrote:

> Hi, I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-apple-darwin9.7.0, NS
> apple-appkit-949.46) on OS X 10.5.8.
>
> When I launch emacs from the terminal with
>
> $ /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs &
>
> I can use ispell as expected.
>
> However, if I launch emacs by clicking on its icon - which presumably points
> to the same binary file -
> I get the following error:
>
> apply: Searching for program: No such file or directory, ispell

See the section "Grabbing environment variables" in the Mac OS /
GNUstep chapter of the Emacs manual. PATH is the issue here.

Message #20 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: stucker <brown_emu <at> yahoo.com>
To: Bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#4684: ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X)
 launched from icon
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:23:50 -0700 (PDT)

Magnus Henoch wrote:
> 
> The problem is that Emacs can't find the `ispell' binary, probably
> because of different PATH settings.  Try customising
> ispell-program-name, setting it to the full path of ispell.
> 
> Magnus
> 

Sorry, I was away on travel and my wireless card seemed to have died...
But thank you for the response. I did set 
(custom-set-variables
 '(ispell-program-name 
   "/Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/textmodes/ispell"))
and also to ispell.elc instead of ispell

but in either case this does not seem to work. The strange thing is that it
doesn't work only when I launch Emacs through the icon... when I launch
emacs from the terminal, it finds ispell just fine.

Stephen





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Message #25 received at 4684-done <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: 4684-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: stucker <brown_emu <at> yahoo.com>
Subject: Re:  ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon 
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:20:20 -0400

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=4684

This results from PATH being different when starting from icon.  You  
can fix it by one of several means.  Please refer to the manual or  
search on the net about Emacs Mac OS X, and path.

Emacs does none of this by default to avoid unexpected differences  
from other OS X applications, which follow the same rules.  If you do  
not like this behavior, the Aquamacs distribution does set PATH I  
believe.

Message #30 received at 4684 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Fabien Tricoire <fabien.tricoire <at> univie.ac.at>
To: 4684 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re:  ispell not recognized when emacs 23 (on OS X) launched from icon
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:06:31 +0100

Same problem here (but when calling flyspell-mode). I updated /etc/ 
paths as explained in the Emacs manual, it does not help.  
Interestingly enough, M-! ispell works, but M-x ispell or M-x flyspell- 
mode do not work.

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