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4.54. emacs

Updated emacs packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read email and news.

Bug Fix

BZ#769673
Emacs did not properly terminate if it was started remotely and the remote client session was closed while Emacs was suspended. Under these conditions, Emacs entered an infinite loop in the code and gradually consumed all available computer resources, which caused the system to become unstable. With this update, Emacs has been modified, and it now terminates correctly when the remote session is closed.
All users of emacs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated emacs packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read e-mail and news.

Bug Fix

BZ#796053
In ispell mode, Emacs used the spell checkers in the following order: Ispell, Aspell, and Hunspell. However, Ispell is no longer available and Aspell does not have any dictionaries installed by default. Consequently, because Emacs found Aspell before the default Hunspell, the spell check failed and Emacs reported the following error message: 
ispell-init-process: Error: No word lists can be found for the language "en_US".
With this update, Emacs has been modified to look for the spell checkers in the following order: Hunspell, Aspell, and Ispell. This ensures that Hunspell is used by default when it is available.
All users of emacs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.