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I'm unsure whether this should be an SRU or a backport; this kind of seems to fall between the cracks. I'm trying both approaches now; apologies if I am wasting too much of everybody's time this way. ** Description changed: Binary package hint: dictionaries-common + + Emacs users who want to use flyspell (wavy underlines under misspelled + words as you type) cannot on Maverick. The root cause was a change in + the Emacs Lisp syntax which breaks older versions of dictionaries- + common. + + TEST CASE: start Emacs, type Esc x flyspell-mode <ret> or equivalently + enable Flyspell from Customize or the menu. + + Failure scenario: an error message "Enabling flyspell-mode gave an + error." (sic) + + Success scenario: "Starting new ispell process ..." + + A minimal patch is attached to this bug. Upgrading dictionaries-common + to upstream 1.5.12 should be equivalent. Natty now ships 1.5.15 (bug + #660367). Maverick has 1.5.11. + + The fix in 1.5.12 should be compatible with older Emacs versions; + emacs22 (and to a limited extent xemacs21) should continue to work, + while this fixes flyspell for emacs23 and emacs-snapshot users. + + --- Previous version of Bug Description: --- Please remove the following files from dictionaries-common: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/debian-ispell.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/flyspell.el /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/dictionaries-common/ispell.el They are already provided with the emacs packages (emacs23-common and emacs-snapshot-common) and the versions provided with dictionaries-common are currently incompatible with the ones that are included in the emacs23-package: When these files are installed any attempt to enable on-the-fly spell checking e.G. by M-x flyspell-mode will result in a generic error message: Enabling flyspell-mode gave an error. No debug info. And even if debug-on-error is set the error message is generated without setting any trigger for the debugger. Took me 2 hours to track this error down. WORKAROUND: to fix this in a live system, remove the byte-compiled .elc files for your emacs flavor, too. For example, if you use emacs23; cd /usr/share/emacs23/site-lisp/dictionaries-common sudo rm *.el *.elc After removing the files spell checking while typing in emacs works fine again. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: dictionaries-common 1.5.11ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-15.21-generic 2.6.35.1 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-15-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Aug 17 03:51:38 2010 EcryptfsInUse: Yes PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANG=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: dictionaries-common -- dictionaries-common versions of ispell.el and flyspell.el break recent emacsen https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619015 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Registry Administrators, which is the registrant for Debian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~registry Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~registry More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
