Re: ispell/aspell hangs message composition?

[Jonathan Meeks <jm@NOSPAM.jmeeks.no.spamming.com>]

At Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:21:44 +0000 (UTC),
John Owens <john_owens@yahoo.com> wrote:
> OK, the symptom. I'll start composing a message and emacs will 
> completely hang. It won't even screen-refresh (I can wipe other 
> windows over it and it blanks the emacs window). I hit C-g and it
> will return me to normal, but then spell-checking stops on that
> message. That's why I'm concluding it's ispell/aspell/flyspell, but
> I'm certainly interested in other opinions or ways to track this down.
> It's worrisome because I have such a vanilla installation with not
> much customization. Any thoughts or suggestions would be 
> appreciated.

I get the same thing, except I am using Wanderlust and Win2000.  A
workaround is to kill the aspell/ispell process in the Windows task
manager.  Flyspell will detect the process is dead and will start a
new one.  

--JM