bug#17828: 24.4.50; cygwin ispell process not responding

[Yigal Hochberg]

Hi Eli,

Toda, Ma nishma?

I used to use ispell4 for Windows but this was unsupported and old.

Then,I switched to Cygwin aspell because is just worked "out-of-the-box".

It worked ok for a long while w/out a problem and no need for customization.

(emacs just found it and worked with it ok, despite pipes).

The problem appeared with emacs 24.4.

I will try the Window speller you pointed.

Thanks,

Yigal

 

On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:21:03 -0400
> From: Yigal Hochberg <hochberg@dmhsoftware.com>
>
> Emacs on Windows XP
>
> When spelling a buffer from emacs using cygwin ispell, some of the times the
> ispell process hangs and need to be aborted.
>
> This did happen with previous emacs versions e.g 24.3
>
> Thank you
>
> Yigal Hochberg
>
>
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2014-05-26 on LEG570

Why are you using a Cygwin ispell with a native Windows Emacs?  This
combination could have "issues" regarding communications via pipes.
My recommendation is to use a native Windows build of a speller
instead.  Hunspell can be found here:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/hunspell-1.3.2-3-w32-bin.zip/download

--
Yigal