Re: Spell checking too slow on Emacs.app

[Baoqiu Cui]

On Sep 22, 5:58 am, Leo <sdl....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if anyone else has complaint regarding ispell.el on OSX. It is
> an order of magnitude slower than on GNU/Linux. For example, if you run
> ispell-buffer you will see it takes seconds to move from current word to
> the next misspelled word while in GNU/Linux it is also instant.
>
> If you have (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-flyspell), then
> report-emacs-bug will take about 10 seconds to enter the mail buffer.
>
> My feeling is the communication between emacs on OSX(and possibly
> windows) and external tools is extremely slow.
>
> Is there anyone seeing these problems? Any workaround?

I had the same problem with flyspell on Emacs 23.1 for OS X.  You can
try to use speck.el, which performs much better (however still not
perfect to me).

Baoqiu