Re: ispell default dictionary keeps reverting to "american"

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 02.09.2007 um 19:27 schrieb Kevin Brubeck Unhammer:

> > Have you checked whether the modes of the buffers that use american
> > for ispell do *not* change ispell-dictionary? Have you checked
> > whether your buffer do *not* set ispell-dictionary locally? Are you
> > sure that your setting of ispell-dictionary in ~/.emacs is executed?
> > Some (message ...) might help.
>
> I tried emptying my .emacs from all but (ispell-change-dictionary
> "nynorsk" t), no change... the dictionary starts being "nynorsk" and
> changes to "american" after one ispell-check.


It's not the complete answer and analysis.

It's obviously secure to put a statement like this one

        (defadvice load (before debug-log activate)
          (message "(Tipp von Kai G) Lade jetzt: %s" (ad-get-arg 0)))

into ~/.emacs, because you describe that your setting of ispell's  
dictionary is valid until you load some file? Or does it already  
happen when you spell-check a "built-in" buffer like *scratch*,  
*Buffer List*, or *Messages*. So let's make the test more complete!

Make ~/.emacs report what the ispell-program-name is. In *shell*  
buffer or some other terminal determine the PID of GNU Emacs. Now  
start to spell-check some built-in buffer and don't quit! In that  
other terminal either use ps or pstree to determine all processes  
that GNU Emacs has spawned. Is ispell or aspell (the new default)  
doing the spell-check?

With the statement above you will be able to see which files of Elisp  
code are loaded when you load some text file. When you put the  
statement into the system init file, you can see a bit more of Elisp  
file loading.

When you've found that it's aspell (the new default) and not ispell,  
that is spell-checking, you could try something similiar to this:

      (setq ispell-program-name "ispell")
;     (setq ispell-program-name "aspell")
;
      (if (string= "aspell" ispell-program-name)
        (progn
;	  (setq ispell-extra-args "--norm-form=comp --norm-required --run- 
together")
;         (setq ispell-dictionary "en_GB-ise-w_accents")
          (setq ispell-dictionary "deutsch")
          (set-default 'ispell-local-dictionary ispell-dictionary)
	  (add-hook 'TeX-language-en-hook (function (lambda () (ispell- 
change-dictionary "british"))))
	  (add-hook 'TeX-language-de-hook (function (lambda () (ispell- 
change-dictionary ispell-dictionary))))
          (message "Alles für «a»spell")
        )
          (setq ispell-dictionary "german8")
	  (add-hook 'TeX-language-en-hook (function (lambda () (ispell- 
change-dictionary "british"))))
	  (add-hook 'TeX-language-de-hook (function (lambda () (ispell- 
change-dictionary "deutsch8"))))
          (message "Alles für »i«spell")
      )
      (add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook (function (lambda () (setq ispell- 
extra-args '("-t")))))


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