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Started by Andrew Davidson
Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:10
trouble with ispell
Author: Andrew Davidson
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:10
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 10:10
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Hello For some unknown reason ispell stoped working for me in emacs. when I run any of the emacs ispell commands I get the following message in my mini buffer "writing to process: invalid argument ispel" I notice that I also get the following message in the cmdtool I used to start emacs from "Fatal error (1)". ispell seems to work fine if I use it from a cmdtool or xterm also I can not seem to get ispell to work from an emacs-shell? I get some message about "Screen too small: need at least 10 lines" I am running gnuemacs 18.58 on a sun sparc station 2 with openwindows. I do not know if this is part of the problem or not, but I installed a new version of my OS yesterday. I do not know what version of ispel.el i am using (it says something about ported to ispel version 3.0) Sorry but I also do not know the exact version of ispell I am using. (I do not have access to the source code) thanks in advance Andy
Re: trouble with ispell
Author: Geoffrey Kuenning
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:35
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:35
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In article <ANDY.93Jan22101021@elviss.eng.sun.com> andy@elviss.eng.sun.com (Andrew Davidson) writes: > For some unknown reason ispell stoped working for me in emacs. > when I run any of the emacs ispell commands I get the following > message in my mini buffer "writing to process: invalid argument ispel" With one "l" or two? It might be useful to use cut-and-paste to copy the message accurately into a posting; accurate error messages make diagnosis easier. > I notice that I also get the following message in the cmdtool I used > to start emacs from "Fatal error (1)". ispell seems to work fine if I > use it from a cmdtool or xterm It sounds like you aren't successfully starting ispell. Why, I can't tell based on the information given. > also I can not seem to get ispell to work from an emacs-shell? I get some message about "Screen too small: need at least 10 lines" This message could be improved to be more informative. Emacs doesn't support terminal emulation (cursor-control escape sequences) in shell window, so ispell can't be run from an emacs shell (except in -a or -l mode). > I do not know what version of ispel.el i am using (it says something > about ported to ispel version 3.0) Sorry but I also do not know the exact version of ispell I am using. (I do not have access to the source code) You can get the version of ispell.el from the $Header or $Id line. The version of ispell itself is given by "ispell -v". If "ispell -v" doesn't report 2.0.02 or 3.0.09, you should pick up patches to bring yourself up to one of those levels. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@maui.cs.ucla.edu geoff@ITcorp.com
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