Re: [PATCH] git-gui: Help identify aspell version on Windows too
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> Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> 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.
No, it does not abort. It's still running, but sitting there idly.
-- Hannes
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>