When starting ispell in recent versions of emacs it hangs. Must be exited with C-g. emacs-20.7-32, aspell-0.32.6-2 emacs -q *Messages* output: Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/aspell-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/aspell-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang.emacs.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/lang.emacs.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/po-mode-init.el (source)...done Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/psgml-init.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/psgml-init.el (source)...done Loading cus-face... Loading cus-face...done Finished loading /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/egg/leim-list.el and load others... Loading /usr/share/emacs/20.7/leim/leim-list.el (source)... Loading /usr/share/emacs/20.7/leim/leim-list.el (source)...done For information about the GNU Project and its goals, type C-h C-p. Loading ispell... Loading ispell...done Starting new Ispell process... Spell checking *scratch* using default dictionary... Spell-checking done Quit [2 times] Quit Minibuffer output: Starting new Ispell-process ... Continuing spelling check using default dictionary... _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list