================================================================ Dear Bug Team! ispell.el 3.3 as packaged with xemacs doesn't fully like aspell. Namely, the first time ispell process (which is actually aspell) is started, check-ispell-version is called to verify the tool version. Yet aspell doesn't include LIBDIR= line, that check-ispell-version depends on, into its output. So, we end up with a stack trace at the bottom of this message. I propose the followin patch to fix the problem. I simply check the result of re-search-forward and don't try to do call match-beginning when there was no match in the first place. --- xemacs-packages/lisp/ispell/ispell.el~ 2003-02-19 16:13:25.000000000 -0800 +++ xemacs-packages/lisp/ispell/ispell.el 2003-04-09 11:15:36.000000000 -0700 ＠＠ -697,9 +697,10 ＠＠ ispell-version)) (message result)) ;; return library path. - (re-search-forward "LIBDIR = \\\"\\([^ \t\n]*\\)\\\"" nil t) - (if (match-beginning 0) - (setq result (buffer-substring (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))) + + (if (and (re-search-forward "LIBDIR = \\\"\\([^ \t\n]*\\)\\\"" nil t) + (match-beginning 0)) + (setq result (buffer-substring (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))) (goto-char (point-min)) (if (not (memq status '(0 nil))) (error "%s exited with %s %s" ispell-program-name Signaling: (args-out-of-range 0 0) match-beginning(0) (if (match-beginning 0) (setq result (buffer-substring ... ...))) (if interactivep (progn (end-of-line) (setq result ...) (message result)) (re-search-forward "LIBDIR = \\\"\\([^ \n]*\\)\\\"" nil t) (if (match-beginning 0) (setq result ...))) (save-excursion (set-buffer (get-buffer-create " *ispell-tmp*")) (erase-buffer) (setq status (call-process ispell-program-name nil t nil "-vv")) (goto-char (point-min)) (if interactivep (progn ... ... ...) (re-search-forward "LIBDIR = \\\"\\([^ \n]*\\)\\\"" nil t) (if ... ...)) (goto-char (point-min)) (if (not ...) (error "%s exited with %s %s" ispell-program-name ... status)) (setq case-fold-search t status (re-search-forward ... nil t) case-fold-search case-fold-search-val) (if (or ... ...) (error "%s version 3 release %d.%d.%d or greater is required" ispell-program-name ... ... ...) (if ... ...)) (kill-buffer (current-buffer))) (let ((case-fold-search-val case-fold-search) (default-major-mode ...) result status) (save-excursion (set-buffer ...) (erase-buffer) (setq status ...) (goto-char ...) (if interactivep ... ... ...) (goto-char ...) (if ... ...) (setq case-fold-search t status ... case-fold-search case-fold-search-val) (if ... ... ...) (kill-buffer ...)) result) check-ispell-version() (setq ispell-library-path (check-ispell-version)) (if (and ispell-process (eq ... ...) (or ... ...)) (setq ispell-filter nil ispell-filter-continue nil) (ispell-kill-ispell t) (message "Starting new Ispell process...") (sit-for 0) (setq ispell-library-path (check-ispell-version)) (setq ispell-process (let ... ...) ispell-filter nil ispell-filter-continue nil ispell-process-directory default-directory) (set-process-filter ispell-process (quote ispell-filter)) (if (and ... ...) (set-process-coding-system ispell-process ... ...)) (if (not version18p) (accept-process-output ispell-process 3) (accept-process-output ispell-process)) (if (null ispell-filter) (accept-process-output ispell-process 3)) (cond (... ...) (... nil) (t ... ... ...)) (setq ispell-filter nil) (let (...) (if extended-char-mode ...)) (process-kill-without-query ispell-process)) ispell-init-process() ispell-buffer-local-words() ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs() (if (not recheckp) (ispell-accept-buffer-local-defs)) ispell-region(1 121938) (lambda nil "Check the current buffer for spelling errors interactively." (interactive) (ispell-region (point-min) (point-max)))() call-interactively(ispell-buffer) command-execute(ispell-buffer t) execute-extended-command(nil) call-interactively(execute-extended-command) ================================================================