GNU bug report logs - #6539
ispell-complete-word looks for wrong file (at least on w32)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:19:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: wontfix

Done: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 6539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 6539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, agustin6martin <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#6539: ispell-complete-word looks for wrong file (at least on 
	w32)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:45:51 +0200

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:04:11 +0200
>> Cc: agustin6martin <at> gmail.com, 6539 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > Then you'd see
>> >
>> >   Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
>> >
>> > Is that really better?
>>
>> Hm, maybe not. Then perhaps a suitable file name for w32 is better?
>
> Then you'd have the same error message as we do now, just with a w32
> formatted absolute file name.  How is this better than the current
> state of affairs?

As I said earlier it would be less confusing. Then the user will know
that this is not just something that no one has cared about on w32.
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