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Re: Spell checking too slow on Emacs.app


From: Leo
Subject: Re: Spell checking too slow on Emacs.app
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 01:40:02 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

On 2009-12-31 22:35 +0000, Steve Revilak wrote:
>>>> Thanks Leo.  It helps to know the problem is beyond my control.
>>>> ispell is quick and fairly easy to use from the command line in case
>>>> you want to check spelling more than once a month.  It's a bit of a
>>>> hassle to remember to save the buffer before the spell check and then
>>>> revert the buffer after the check, but even with those steps its way
>>>> quicker than trying to check spelling within emacs.
>
> I've discovered a workaround that might (or might not) be useful.
> From a shell prompt,
>
>   /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/Emacs -nw FILE
>
> Spell checking (i.e., M-x ispell-buffer) is quite fast if you run
> emacs as a non-windowed application.
>
> (Emacs 23.1.1 & 23.1.90.1, on Mac OS X 10.4.11, aspell 0.60.6)
>
> Steve

Yes, that's for sure because it is only related to ns port.

I have moved to another port although still experimental it seems pretty
good. http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/119139.

It provides a feature set that's the closest to Emacs GNU/Linux.

Leo





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