In Emacs 27.1 on Windows with auctex 13.0.4, I have installed aspell as described in https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/45752 and it works, except in .tex files. When I M-x ispell-buffer emacs hangs after a few moments and it doesn't become active before I press C-g and skips the spelling. The same happens for flyspell. It seems to work if line 4084 of ispell.el is commented: ;; (ispell-send-string "+\n") ; set ispell mode to tex In GNU Emacs 27.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2020-08-21 built on CIRROCUMULUS Repository revision: 86d8d76aa36037184db0b2897c434cdaab1a9ae8 Repository branch: HEAD Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.17134 System Description: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise (v10.0.1803.17134.2087) Recent messages: Auto-saving... Sending... Sending via mail... Save this mail sending choice? (y or n) y Saving file c:/Users/brel/AppData/Roaming/.emacs... Wrote c:/Users/brel/AppData/Roaming/.emacs Sending...done Undo [14 times] user-error: No further undo information apply: Command attempted to use minibuffer while in minibuffer Configured using: 'configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY W32NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 HARFBUZZ ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS MODULES THREADS JSON PDUMPER LCMS2 GMP Important settings: value of $LANG: DAN locale-coding-system: cp1252 Major mode: BibTeX Minor modes in effect: shell-dirtrack-mode: t save-place-mode: t delete-selection-mode: t show-paren-mode: t recentf-mode: t global-auto-revert-mode: t cua-mode: t TeX-PDF-mode: t TeX-source-correlate-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. Features: (shell pcomplete cus-edit mailalias mailclient qp ispell latex easy-mmode edmacro kmacro latex-flymake flymake-proc flymake compile comint ansi-color ring warnings thingatpt tex-ispell tex-style bibtex help-mode pp shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny dired dired-loaddefs format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec epa derived epg epg-config gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs text-property-search time-date mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils saveplace delsel paren recentf tree-widget wid-edit autorevert filenotify cua-base cus-start cus-load server tex-mik tex crm advice texmathp finder-inf info tex-site package easymenu browse-url url-handlers url-parse auth-source cl-seq eieio eieio-core cl-macs eieio-loaddefs password-cache json subr-x map url-vars seq byte-opt gv bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib tooltip eldoc electric uniquify ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer cl-generic cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese eucjp-ms cp51932 hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev obarray cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote threads w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process emacs) Memory information: ((conses 16 157647 22674) (symbols 48 14604 1) (strings 32 48447 2455) (string-bytes 1 1396927) (vectors 16 27704) (vector-slots 8 1010205 201054) (floats 8 53 204) (intervals 56 928 11) (buffers 1000 16))