On Friday, May 17, 2002, at 06:26 , Carsten Bormann wrote:
>> When I try to execute ispell in emacs, it will invariably hang >> with the minibuffer message "continuing spelling check using >> default dictionary" > > I have no idea whether this is related, but there is something > fishy going on with subprocesses in emacs. > > 1) Using emacs commands such as man, only part of the manual > gets displayed -- it is cut off at the end. This is not man- > specific, it occurs for diffs etc. as well. Haven't isolated > yet which forms of calling a subprocess have the damage. > > 2) Subprocess input in general is *extremely* slow (read: CPU- > intensive), making e.g. auto-compression-mode a pain. It is > much faster to decompress a file in situ and then open it. > > It looks like it's time for some bughunting... There have been a series of related posts on the mac-emacs mailing lists. Apparently, emacs and Mac OS' ptys don't play well together. There's some compromise or other that makes ange-ftp happy but makes something else break; I don't remember the exact details right now. FWIW, I'm using fink's emacs 21.2-4, and am *not* experiencing slowdowns with jka-compr. I do experience the occasional hang, but killing gzip (from a shell) and retrying seems to solve that. HTH, Dan -- This email impairs your ability to operate heavy machinery. <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
