From 023cea08bf76655fee97e3a788f0c98d0dcda33d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Parri <simonparri@ganzeria.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 13:26:53 -0500
Subject: Fork espeak so that the prompt appears immediately

---
 spelling-rbee | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/spelling-rbee b/spelling-rbee
index 212192c..60cf6af 100755
--- a/spelling-rbee
+++ b/spelling-rbee
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ def get(prompt="spell: ")
 end
 
 def say(it,speed=100)
-  system "espeak -s #{speed} '#{it}'"
+  pid = spawn "espeak -s #{speed} '#{it}'"
+  Process.detach pid
 end
 
 def ckword(word,result)
-- 
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