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

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 11:45:51 +0200
>> Cc: agustin6martin@gmail.com, 6539@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> >> From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
>> >> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:04:11 +0200
>> >> Cc: agustin6martin@gmail.com, 6539@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.
>
> I don't see how.


If Emacs says that it can not find a file with a path that is clearly
not a w32 path, but a unix style path, is not that more confusing to
you? Don't you get the impression that this is not yet working on w32
because no has fixed the file name? And in such a case don't you get
the impression that there might be more things involved that are not
OS independent?

After seeing many such cases at least I get that impression.