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Re: flyspell-mode fails in non-existing directory
From: |
martin rudalics |
Subject: |
Re: flyspell-mode fails in non-existing directory |
Date: |
Mon, 14 May 2007 14:32:15 +0200 |
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Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) |
> Also, I call flyspell-mode in a major-mode hook (or is there anything
> wrong with that?), so the error occurs before I even could save it.
I understand.
>>> ispell seems to work around this for synchronous processes, but
>>> apparently not for `start-process'.
>>>
>>
>> I presume both ispell and flyspell use asynchronous processes on your
>> system. Moreover the same error should be issued for synchronous ones.
>> In fact, both `start-process' and `call-process' have identic code here:
>>
>
> True, those two have identical code. Yet `ispell-call-process' is a
> wrapper used by ispell to "defend against bad `default-directory'".
> There is no such wrapper for in `ispell-start-process'.
In fact I told Richard about that but forgot to check his patches.
Please try the attached one.
*** ispell.el Fri Mar 23 08:46:26 2007
--- ispell.el Mon May 14 14:15:00 2007
***************
*** 2483,2489 ****
(defun ispell-start-process ()
"Start the ispell process, with support for no asynchronous processes.
Keeps argument list for future ispell invocations for no async support."
! (let (args)
;; Local dictionary becomes the global dictionary in use.
(setq ispell-current-dictionary
(or ispell-local-dictionary ispell-dictionary))
--- 2483,2493 ----
(defun ispell-start-process ()
"Start the ispell process, with support for no asynchronous processes.
Keeps argument list for future ispell invocations for no async support."
! (let ((default-directory default-directory)
! args)
! (unless (and (file-directory-p default-directory)
! (file-readable-p default-directory))
! (setq default-directory (expand-file-name "~/")))
;; Local dictionary becomes the global dictionary in use.
(setq ispell-current-dictionary
(or ispell-local-dictionary ispell-dictionary))
Re: flyspell-mode fails in non-existing directory, Richard Stallman, 2007/05/14