Re: [h-e-w] cygwin ispell and emacs 21.1

[Harald . Maier . BW]

"Underwood, Jonathan" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi
> 
> I'm currently running emacs 21.1 under windows 2000 and am having trouble
> running ispell from within emacs. I am using ispell compiled and running
> under cygwin. When run thru' emacs, i get the error message "ispell exited
> with code 128". I have checked that ispell works correctly under a terminal
> window (bash -c ispell), and all is well. There's nothing unusual about my
> cygwin setup within .emacs:
> 
>   (if (boundp 'w32-quote-process-args)
>       (setq w32-quote-process-args ?\"))
>   (setq shell-file-name "bash")
>   (setenv "SHELL" shell-file-name) 
>   (setq explicit-shell-file-name shell-file-name) 
>   (setq shell-command-switch "-c")
>   (setq explicit-bash-args '("--login" "-i"))
> 
> setting the environment variable DICTIONARY to something sensible didn't
> help matters at all. Any suggestions anyone? Is error code 128 significant?

I tried it with emacs -q --no-site-file and all works fine for me. 
The only thing I did is setting the correct path. I am using also
'International Ispell Version 3.1.20 10/10/95'.

Harald