Re: flyspell-mode fails in non-existing directory

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

martin rudalics <address@hidden> writes:


> > after finding a new file in a not yet created directory, flyspell- 
> > mode
> > fails with:
>
> True, but when "finding" that file Emacs should have told you
>
> Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its parents
>
> which you apparently ignored ;-) and when trying to save the buffer  
> Emacs
> would tell you
>
> basic-save-buffer-2: ...: no such directory

I already knew that the directory didn't exist and how to create it.
But why should I have to save the file to run flyspell, when I can even
use it on buffers with no files associated?
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.


> > 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'.


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher