From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030120 Description of problem: aspell offers several alternative modes for checking spelling, such as an email mode and an HTML/SGML mode. The HTML/SGML mode does not operate in the version shipped in Phoebe. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): aspell-0.33.7.1-20 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Obtain an HTML/SGML file of some sort. Call it testfile.html 2. aspell --mode=sgml -c testfile.html 3. Await results. Actual Results: No results. aspell produces no output or feedback of any kind. Expected Results: aspell should start its regular spell check routine, such as one would see if not using HTML/SGML mode (aspell --mode=none -c testfile.html) Additional info: bug 80757 suggests upgrading aspell. I can report that aspell-0.50.3 fixes this bug.
I second this as well. aspell 0.33 -c -H fails miserably when checking XML (looks like a recursion loop infinitely allocating memory), and aspell 0.5x -c -H works Bug 80757 and Bug 77617 are basically the same bug as this
aspell will be upgraded in the next release