Re: Problems after upgrade

[Andreas Röhler]

Decebal wrote:
> Because off org-mode I needed to upgrade Emacs. I now installed
> 22.3.1. Before I had a 21 version. I do not know wich one. I have now
> a few problems.
>
> I use flyspell. In the old version this used ispell, but the new
> version wants to use aspell. I fixed this by putting into my .emacs:
>     (setq-default ispell-program-name "ispell")
> Now ispell is used again.
>
> In my .emacs I have:
>     (set-default 'ispell-local-dictionary "nederlands")
> But this is not the dictionary used. When opening a buffer English
> words are seen as correct, but Dutch words (nederlands) as not
> correct. When I evaluate ispell-local-dictionary it says nederlands.
> When I change the dictionary through tools->spell checking->change
> dictionary to nederlands, ispell-local-dictionary still evaluates to
> nederlands, but from then on Dutch words are seen as correct and
> English words as incorrect.
> What is happening here? And more important: how can I solve this?
>
> On a side note: what are the differences between aspell and ispell?
>   

Last time I asked that for myself aspell had a better guessing of the
right word.
(Machines differ internly.)
Also only aspell was able to use more than one dict - thus enabling
context-sensitiveness.

With aspell now I feel better.

Maybe just a feeling. :)

Andreas



> Another change is that regions are not visible anymore. I put in
> my .emacs:
>     (transient-mark-mode 1)
> and now it works again. Are the defaults changed?
>
> The last problem is that previously the *GNU Emacs* buffer would be
> killed with any action I did. (Or C-l if I wanted it to be killed, but
> did not want to do something.) Now I need to kill the buffer manually.
> What is happening here.?
>
>