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- From: geoff@ficus.cs.ucla.edu (Geoffrey Kuenning)
- Subject: Re: trouble with ispell
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.223508.1725@cs.ucla.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 22:35:08 GMT
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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
-