Hi Eli, Toda, Ma nishma? I used to use ispell4 for Windows but this was unsupported and old. Then,I switched to Cygwin aspell because is just worked "out-of-the-box". It worked ok for a long while w/out a problem and no need for customization. (emacs just found it and worked with it ok, despite pipes). The problem appeared with emacs 24.4. I will try the Window speller you pointed. Thanks, Yigal On Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:21:03 -0400 > > From: Yigal Hochberg > > > > Emacs on Windows XP > > > > When spelling a buffer from emacs using cygwin ispell, some of the times > the > > ispell process hangs and need to be aborted. > > > > This did happen with previous emacs versions e.g 24.3 > > > > Thank you > > > > Yigal Hochberg > > > > > > > > > > In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32) > > of 2014-05-26 on LEG570 > > Why are you using a Cygwin ispell with a native Windows Emacs? This > combination could have "issues" regarding communications via pipes. > My recommendation is to use a native Windows build of a speller > instead. Hunspell can be found here: > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/hunspell-1.3.2-3-w32-bin.zip/download > > -- Yigal