Re: ispell problem

[Stefan Monnier]

> I've some problems with ispell : when I write messages the buffer is
> almost frozen and gnus tells me "Starting new ispell process.."
> It happened after I made a dist upgrade of my system (debian / unstable)

You might want to look for problems unrelated to ispell as well.
Ispell.el does not write a "...done" corresponding to the above message,
so all you know is that ispell.el outputted a message and then later
on (without any other message in the mean time) Emacs freezes.
But the freeze can be "long" after ispell has been successfully started.

Try setting debug-on-quit and hitting C-g while it's frozen to get an
elisp backtrace.  If it's really frozen hard and doesn't reacto to C-g,
you'll need to run Emacs under a debugger instead to get a C backtrace.

An easier path is to try and turn things off in your .emacs/.gnus to see
which one triggers the problem.


        Stefan