Mercurial > emacs
changeset 31060:d24cddac1e33
Document that ispell works, and mention Eshell as an alternative
to Shell mode.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:18:43 +0000 |
| parents | b65102a3c19d |
| children | 457c0b39a922 |
| files | man/msdog.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/msdog.texi Tue Aug 22 15:13:14 2000 +0000 +++ b/man/msdog.texi Tue Aug 22 15:18:43 2000 +0000 @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ asynchronous subprocesses are not available. In particular, Shell mode and its variants do not work. Most Emacs features that use asynchronous subprocesses also don't work on MS-DOS, including -spelling correction and GUD. When in doubt, try and see; commands that +Shell mode and GUD. When in doubt, try and see; commands that don't work print an error message saying that asynchronous processes aren't supported. @@ -709,6 +709,14 @@ means you cannot do any more editing until the inferior process finishes. + Spell checking also works, by means of special support for synchronous +invocation of the @code{ispell} program. This is slower than the +asynchronous invocation on Unix. + + Instead of the Shell mode, which doesn't work on MS-DOS, you can use +the @kbd{M-x eshell} command. This invokes the Eshell package that +implements a Unix-like shell entirely in Emacs Lisp. + By contrast, Emacs compiled as native Windows application @strong{does} support asynchronous subprocesses. @xref{Windows Processes}.