fritzz@lamont.ldgo.columbia.edu (fritz zaucker) (09/07/90)
Hi, I have ISPELL ver. 2.0.01 (May 87). It runs fine as standalone program. If I run it with ispell.el from within GNU Emacs 18.55 (on a 386/ix ver.2.02 PC) it doesn't. Symptom: a ispell process is started, the status line tells me, that the word in question is looked up. After that, noting happens anymore. If I do a kill ispell-process-id from another xterm Emacs comes back, tells me, that the spelling is right or even suggests other words. Somehow the ispell process doesn't seem to stop executing or the relevant ispell.el function doesn't notice it, or what so ever. Any help? Thanks Fritz Zaucker
jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk (09/10/90)
I have ISPELL ver. 2.0.01 (May 87). It runs fine as standalone program. If I run it with ispell.el from within GNU Emacs 18.55 (on a 386/ix ver.2.02 PC) it doesn't. I too have trouble with ispell version, but version 2.0.02 which is OK interactively, but I want to use it from emacs (is there any other way?). It seems very confused about what consistutes a word, and looks up whole lines. and hangs. I was happy with the previous version I had. I am using an HLH Orion1/05 (Intergraph Clipper processor). ==John
chapp@hprpcd.HP.COM (Bill Chapp) (09/14/90)
/ :comp.emacs / jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk / 6:10 am Sep 10, 1990 / >I too have trouble with ispell version, but version 2.0.02 which is OK >interactively, but I want to use it from emacs (is there any other >way?). It seems very confused about what consistutes a word, and >looks up whole lines. and hangs. I was happy with the previous >version I had. I am using an HLH Orion1/05 (Intergraph Clipper >processor). I seem to have the same problem with ispell 2.1.0 and GNU Emacs 18.55 running on an HP375 workstation. -Bill
johnd@Stardent.COM (John R. Dennis @stardent) (09/15/90)
In article <9009102325.AB04499@life.ai.mit.edu> jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk writes: > > I have ISPELL ver. 2.0.01 (May 87). It runs fine as standalone program. > If I run it with ispell.el from within GNU Emacs 18.55 (on a 386/ix ver.2.02 > PC) it doesn't. > >I too have trouble with ispell version, but version 2.0.02 which is OK >interactively, but I want to use it from emacs (is there any other >way?). It seems very confused about what consistutes a word, and >looks up whole lines. and hangs. I was happy with the previous >version I had. I am using an HLH Orion1/05 (Intergraph Clipper >processor). The problem with it looking up long lines is probably due to the filter it is calling to translate a region into a word followed by a newline (i.e. one word per line). It calls a unix utility to do this, the name of which is stored in the variable ispell-filter-hook and it passes arguments to it which are stored in the variable ispell-filter-hook-args. The standard program is tr and I discovered that I needed to change the args to tr (so that it translates whitespace into a newline character). I found the following worked for us. (defvar ispell-filter-hook-args '("-cs" "[A-Z][a-z]" "[\\012*]") "*Argument LIST to pass to ispell-filter-hook") I don't have an answer why your program hangs though. -- John Dennis E Mail: johnd@Stardent.COM | {uunet,convex,decvax}!stardent!johnd Snail Mail: Stardent Computer, 85 Wells Avenue Newton, MA 02159 Voice Mail: <Work>(617) 964-6228 x243 <Home>(508)366-7976