From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with Spell Checker under Emacs Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:15:37 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <408E7919.5030403@yahoo.com> References: <98d60386.0404261348.1bbeb2aa@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1083079512 11823 80.91.224.253 (27 Apr 2004 15:25:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:25:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 27 17:25:07 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BIUSJ-0006To-00 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 17:25:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1BIUJY-00079f-Hd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 11:16:04 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1083078916 13014452 I 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:122751 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:18039 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:18039 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