Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Quito Quito]

Dear Everyone:

I use a UNIX machine (Sun Microsystems) and often use Emacs to edit
texts among other things. The spell checker works fine under
Emacs---except fairly frequently I get the following message at the
bottom of the screen when spell checking:

"Continuing spelling check using default dictionary ... "

Then the spell checking gets stuck there forever.

When this happens, I have to interrupt Emacs, and use my UNIX command
"ispell file_name.txt" to do the job.

This is pretty annoying especially when I often have to get back to
Emacs.

Would anyone like to explain what the cause of the above problem is?
How can we resolve the problem?

Thanks in advance.

Roland

Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Kevin Rodgers]

Quito Quito wrote:
 > I use a UNIX machine (Sun Microsystems) and often use Emacs to edit
 > texts among other things. The spell checker works fine under
 > Emacs---except fairly frequently I get the following message at the
 > bottom of the screen when spell checking:
 >
 > "Continuing spelling check using default dictionary ... "
 >
 > Then the spell checking gets stuck there forever.
 >
 > When this happens, I have to interrupt Emacs, and use my UNIX command
 > "ispell file_name.txt" to do the job.

What happens if you type C-g within Emacs?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Quito Quito]

Well, when I type Ctr-g, it comes out of that state, but
spell-checking is NOT done. If I re-do spell-checking, the same
problem happens.

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<408E7919.5030403@yahoo.com>...
> Quito Quito wrote:
> ......
> What happens if you type C-g within Emacs?

Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Quito Quito]

Kevin, do you have an answer in view of my another reply to you?

Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<408E7919.5030403@yahoo.com>...
> Quito Quito wrote:
> 
> What happens if you type C-g within Emacs?

Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[upro]

qquito@hotmail.com (Quito Quito) writes:

> Kevin, do you have an answer in view of my another reply to you?
>
> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<408E7919.5030403@yahoo.com>...
>> Quito Quito wrote:
>> 
>> What happens if you type C-g within Emacs?


I dare to suggest: May be you should enable debug mode by putting
(setq debug-on-error t) into your .emacs...


-- 
Michael

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Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Kevin Dziulko]

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I had to fix a mistake in my win2k environment PATH variable.  I also moved my personal dictionary to an actual windows file system.  Ispell will now load and run, but hangs / crashes when checking a really big buffer for some reason.  C-g doesn't do anything.  I am going to try the debug-on-error.  Thanks!

upro <upro@gmx.net> wrote:qquito@hotmail.com (Quito Quito) writes:

> Kevin, do you have an answer in view of my another reply to you?
>
> Kevin Rodgers wrote in message news:<408E7919.5030403@yahoo.com>...
>> Quito Quito wrote:
>> 
>> What happens if you type C-g within Emacs?


I dare to suggest: May be you should enable debug mode by putting
(setq debug-on-error t) into your .emacs...


-- 
Michael

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Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Quito Quito]

Thank you for the suggestion. But does it mean that I create a file
called ".emacs" in my home directory and put the line "setq
debug-on-error t" in the file?

I tried that and the problem still occurs.

upro <upro@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<87fzaiotfl.fsf@lux99.localhost>...
> qquito@hotmail.com (Quito Quito) writes:
> 
> ......
> I dare to suggest: May be you should enable debug mode by putting
> (setq debug-on-error t) into your .emacs...

Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Matthieu Moy]

qquito@hotmail.com (Quito Quito) writes:

> Thank you for the suggestion. But does it mean that I create a file
> called ".emacs" in my home directory and put the line "setq
> debug-on-error t" in the file?

Parenthesis are necessary too. 

(setq debug-on-error t)

-- 
Matthieu

Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[upro]

qquito@hotmail.com (Quito Quito) writes:

> Thank you for the suggestion. But does it mean that I create a file
> called ".emacs" in my home directory and put the line "setq
> debug-on-error t" in the file?
>
> I tried that and the problem still occurs.
>

... you probably _do_ have a file namde .emacs in your home directory
if you use emacs... (are you on Linux or UNIX?)

if you don't see such a file create one and write 

(setq debug-on-error t)

in a line...

> upro <upro@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<87fzaiotfl.fsf@lux99.localhost>...
>> qquito@hotmail.com (Quito Quito) writes:
>> 
>> ......
>> I dare to suggest: May be you should enable debug mode by putting
>> (setq debug-on-error t) into your .emacs...

-- 
Michael

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Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Quito Quito]

Thank you for the confirmation. I did NOT previously have such a file
named .emacs, but I created one and put that line in it. Nevertheless,
the problem I mentioned in the beginning of this thread still occurs
fairly frequently. Sigh!


upro <upro@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<87llk9nrsq.fsf@lux99.localhost>...
> 
> ... you probably _do_ have a file namde .emacs in your home directory
> if you use emacs... (are you on Linux or UNIX?)
> 
> if you don't see such a file create one and write 
> 
> (setq debug-on-error t)
> 
> in a line...

Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[Matthieu Moy]

qquito@hotmail.com (Quito Quito) writes:

> Nevertheless,  the problem  I  mentioned in  the  beginning of  this
> thread still occurs fairly frequently. Sigh!

Anyway, the suggestion wouldn't have solved anything. It just ease the
diagnosis. 

Can you  try something else:  Type M-x set-variable  RET debug-on-quit
RET t RET (RET stands for the return key). 

Then, try to reproduce the  problem, and when your Emacs freezes, type
C-g.  This  is  to  interupt  the  current  task.  With  the  variable
debug-on-quit set to t, this should display a debug backtrace. 

Can  you  post the  result  here  (if it's  too  long,  just take  the
beginning and the end). 

-- 
Matthieu

Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs

[upro]

qquito@hotmail.com (Quito Quito) writes:

> Thank you for the confirmation. I did NOT previously have such a file
> named .emacs, but I created one and put that line in it. Nevertheless,
> the problem I mentioned in the beginning of this thread still occurs
> fairly frequently. Sigh!

of course th error does still occur, but you should get a message by
debug that tells us what has happened...

Maybe you could post that message?

Btw: Ar you sure you have the relevant dictionaris installd and that
ispell/aspell use them?

>
>
> upro <upro@gmx.net> wrote in message news:<87llk9nrsq.fsf@lux99.localhost>...
>> 
>> ... you probably _do_ have a file namde .emacs in your home directory
>> if you use emacs... (are you on Linux or UNIX?)
>> 
>> if you don't see such a file create one and write 
>> 
>> (setq debug-on-error t)
>> 
>> in a line...

-- 
Michael

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