From: Shawn O. Pearce Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:31:19 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Help identify aspell version on Windows too Message-ID: <20080926143119.GX3669@spearce.org> In-Reply-To: <48DCAC08.9060004@viscovery.net> Johannes Sixt wrote: > > My situation is this: I fire up git-gui, and because I have some stale > .git/GITGUI_MSG file, the commit message box is not empty. Aspell begins > its work, and git-gui correctly marks spelling mistakes in the first line. > Even if I type new text, delete old text, or change the whole text by > clicking "Amend", no new spelling mistakes are marked for the whole session. Hmm. Sounds to me like aspell crashes and dies after a while. When aspell terminates on its own git-gui doesn't try to restart it. I've never seen it abort on my Mac, or my Linux systems. Or even on Windows when I was using the Cygwin version of aspell. -- Shawn.