Re: Spell checking too slow on Emacs.app

[Steve Revilak]

> > > Thanks Leo.  It helps to know the problem is beyond my control.
> > > ispell is quick and fairly easy to use from the command line in case
> > > you want to check spelling more than once a month.  It's a bit of a
> > > hassle to remember to save the buffer before the spell check and then
> > > revert the buffer after the check, but even with those steps its way
> > > quicker than trying to check spelling within emacs.

I've discovered a workaround that might (or might not) be useful.
From a shell prompt,

  /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw FILE

Spell checking (i.e., M-x ispell-buffer) is quite fast if you run
emacs as a non-windowed application.

(Emacs 23.1.1 & 23.1.90.1, on Mac OS X 10.4.11, aspell 0.60.6)

Steve

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