> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:21:03 -0400
> From: Yigal Hochberg <hochberg@dmhsoftware.com>
>
> 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