Re: aspell slow down within Emacs

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.

Thanks,
Fab