Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!Ram-Ashwin
From: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ispell.el
Message-ID: <40487@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 13:41:40 GMT
References: <1988Oct14.195628.2611@radio.uucp>
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Reply-To: Ram-Ashwin@cs.yale.edu (Ashwin Ram)
Organization: Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-2158
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In-reply-to: brian@radio.uucp (Brian Glendenning)

In article <1988Oct14.195628.2611@radio.uucp>, brian@radio.uucp (Brian Glendenning) writes:
> I have recently gotten a copy of ispell and ispell.el (from different sources).
> When I try to ispell-buffer or ispell-region I initially get an "Args out of
> range" error, with the point and mark positions listed. If I ignore the error
> message and try again everything works fine.

Turns out that the first time you run ispell, it creates a working buffer using
get-buffer-create which, although it isn't set-buffer'd to as yet, screws up
Emacs's idea of which the current buffer is.  (If you message the (current-buffer)
after the "Prefobnicating" message, it prints out a buffer that isn't the buffer
you're currently in, nor the newly created buffer.  I don't really know why.)

Anyway, the easy fix to this problem is to manually ensure that Emacs is in the
current buffer by adding a set-buffer call.  Use the following diff to add a
(set-buffer this-buf) line before the (narrow-to-region start end) in ispell-region: 


*** ispell.el~	Mon Oct 17 09:20:10 1988
--- ispell.el	Mon Oct 17 09:20:11 1988
***************
*** 393,398
           (save-excursion
              (save-restriction
                 (message "Prefrobnicating...")
                 (narrow-to-region start end)
                 (sit-for 0)
                 (set-syntax-table ispell-syntax-table)

--- 393,399 -----
           (save-excursion
              (save-restriction
                 (message "Prefrobnicating...")
+                (set-buffer this-buf)
                 (narrow-to-region start end)
                 (sit-for 0)
                 (set-syntax-table ispell-syntax-table)


Hope this helps.

-- Ashwin.

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