[comp.emacs] ispell problem

lazlor@ucscb.UCSC.EDU.ucsc.EDU (Allen) (05/14/88)

I installed ispell on our ISI running BSD 4.2 and emacs 18.48.2.

When I try an ispell-??????? command it says 
'starting new ispell process', then
Warning - ispell process died
Process ispell is not running

I believe we are running the newest ipell from prep-ai.mit.edu.

Thanks in advance.

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aboulang@bbn.com (Albert Boulanger) (05/17/88)

   When I try an ispell-??????? command it says 
   'starting new ispell process', then
   Warning - ispell process died
   Process ispell is not running


That is a bug in the init proces code for ispell, my working version
of that function is:


(defun ispell-init-process ()
   "Check status of 'ispell' process and start if necessary."
   (if (and ispell-process
            (eq (process-status ispell-process) 'run))
       (save-excursion
          (set-buffer ispell-out-name)
          (erase-buffer))
       (message "Starting new ispell process...")
       (and (get-buffer ispell-out-name) (kill-buffer ispell-out-name))
       (and ispell-process (process-kill-without-query ispell-process))
       (setq ispell-process (apply 'start-process "ispell"
                                   ispell-out-name ispell-program-name
                                   (if ispell-dictionary
                                       (list "-p" ispell-dictionary "-A")
                                       (list "-A"))))
       (sit-for 3)))

Albert Boulanger
BBN Labs,
aboulanger@bbn.com

Albert Boulanger
BBN Labs Inc.
ABoulanger@bbn.com (arpa)
Phone: (617)873-3891

rickk@hplsla.HP.COM ( Rick Kunin) (08/02/88)

I'm having trouble running ispell.el that was posted here recently.  I took
it off the net and also got the following version of ispell:

    @(#) Ispell Version 2.0.02, May 1987 Beta posting

and I am running Gnu-Emacs 18.51 on an HP 350 running under X10.

My problem is that ispell-buffer does not work.  It seems to be trying to
spell entire lines at once, instead of one word at a time.  

Can anyone give me some advice on what is going wrong and how I can fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Rick Kunin

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