pdccs@cisunx.UUCP (Patrick Champion) (01/24/89)
I run on a 12mHz AT. When I make a dos call in freemacs, I have to wait approximately 5 seconds or more before I can modify any previously typed dos command. If I don't, it just flips back to the editor and I find myself changing the text instead of the dos command. Why is this? Freemacs seems really fast otherwise. Also, I would imagine that freemacs has the dos command in front of you, that it should be far away from editing the text as far as what freemacs is doing internally. Could someone look into this. Also, could someone explain to me how to call up the auto spell check mode? I have started to use the editor, and really like the idea of its "gnu-ness". But get frustrated from the holes in the documentation concerning pc related things. Pat Champion pdccs@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu
su@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (01/29/89)
In article <15201@cisunx.UUCP> pdccs@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Patrick Champion) writes: > Also, could someone explain to me how to call up the auto spell check >mode? Your question about AT's is outside my experience, but I can answer this one. In whatever directory you originally found freemacs, there should have been a file called speller.arc. This file contains the speller. Get this file. If you already have it, run speller.com BEFORE RUNNING EMACS. The spell checker is a TSR. Then load emacs. Now M-x auto-spell-check will invoke auto spell checking. Basically, emacs calls the speller in some arcane fashion of its own based on one of its Mint primitives. I wrote a spell check mode myself for a previous version of freemacs, but 1.5e has one of its own. I now use that for compatibility purposes. Bill su@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (I promise to create an interesting .signature someday.)