Re: ispell gives "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil"

[Kevin Rodgers]

Jeff D. Hamann wrote:
> (setq ispell-dictionary "C:/ispell/dic/american.hash")

That is not a valid value for ispell-dictionary.  `M-x
ispell-change-dictionary' followed by `?' lists these options in the
*Completions* buffer:

american                           brasileiro
british                            castellano
castellano8                        czech
dansk                              default
deutsch                            deutsch8
english                            esperanto
esperanto-tex                      francais
francais-tex                       francais7
german                             german8
italiano                           nederlands
nederlands8                        norsk
norsk7-tex                         polish
portugues                          russian
slovak                             svenska

> ;; set something...
> (assoc ispell-dictionary ispell-dictionary-alist)

That has no effect whatsoever, so leave it out.

--
Kevin