Re: aspell slow down within Emacs

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Fabrizio Sidoli wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Fabrizio Sidoli wrote:
>>
>>>  I was wondering if someone could help me with a problem I am having with
>>>  aspell.
>>>
>>>  I am using an Emacs lisp function called flyspell.el that uses aspell.
>>>  Flyspell is a fully-automatic way to check spelling as you edit in Emacs.
>>>
>>>  The problem I'm having is that aspell causes Emacs to slow down when
>>>  moving the cursor over words (presumably because it is checking them),
>>>  especially if I happen to be scrolling along a line. It can hang for up 
>>> to
>>>  2 or 3 seconds before I can do anything else in the Emacs window.
>> 
>> Most likely the slowdown is while Aspell is coming up with suggestions.
>> 
>> What version of Aspell are you using?  If you are still using Aspell 0.50 
>> you should upgrade to 0.60 as there is a large speedup in the suggestion 
>> speed (see http://aspell.net/test/cur/).  You can also try setting the 
>> suggestion mode to "ultra".
>
> I appear to be already using 0.60.
>
> rpm -qa | grep aspell -->  aspell-0.60.3-7.1.i386
>
> I will make the adjustment to the suggestion mode to see if that helps.

If using "ultra" mode still doesn't help (ie "--sug-mode=ultra").  You can 
also specify "--dont-suggest" to suppression suggestions all together.