Subject: Re: bug#17828: 24.4.50; cygwin ispell process not responding

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 19:02:43 +0300

> Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2014 10:21:03 -0400
> From: Yigal Hochberg <[email-masked]>
> 
> Emacs on Windows XP
> 
> When spelling a buffer from emacs using cygwin ispell, some of the times the
> ispell process hangs and need to be aborted.
> 
> This did happen with previous emacs versions e.g 24.3
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Yigal Hochberg
> 
> 
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 24.4.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
>  of 2014-05-26 on LEG570

Why are you using a Cygwin ispell with a native Windows Emacs?  This
combination could have "issues" regarding communications via pipes.
My recommendation is to use a native Windows build of a speller
instead.  Hunspell can be found here:

  http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/hunspell-1.3.2-3-w32-bin.zip/download