From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: 20741@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, rrt@sc3d.org
Subject: bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:07:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rudcwqo.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOnWdohNt=nEnK=4REe1-BkmGaC+=jUVCjAkyegEd1oBqoDdQA@mail.gmail.com> (Reuben Thomas via's message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:43:12 +0000")
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:43:12 +0000 Reuben Thomas via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 13:35, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I don't think I understand what this means in practice. "Use the
> spell-checker" how? Do you mean we should not break words on
> punctuation characters, or do you mean not to break them only on '.',
> or do you mean something else?
>
> Emacs is widely used to edit program sources, where stuff like
> "file.attribute" and "list-my-packages" happens quite frequently.
>
> I wasn't considering this case, and this issue is about checking text
> (or comments or strings) where you can just feed the entire thing to
> the spellchecker, and not have to isolate words "manually", as in
> program source.
>
> In program source (i.e. not strings or comments), the issue currently
> under discussion won't arise, as "." cannot be part of an identifier.
In some languages it can, e.g. R: "Identifiers consist of a sequence of
letters, digits, the period (‘.’) and the underscore."
(https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html#Identifiers)
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-02-14 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-05 14:06 bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period Reuben Thomas
2015-06-05 14:08 ` bug#20741: Workaround Reuben Thomas
2015-06-05 19:23 ` bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-05 21:42 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 6:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 9:35 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 9:38 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 10:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 10:08 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 10:11 ` Reuben Thomas
2015-06-06 10:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-06 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 9:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-13 12:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-13 21:33 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 10:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-14 13:08 ` martin rudalics
2022-02-14 15:28 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 13:43 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 15:07 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2022-02-14 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 15:27 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-14 17:01 ` Reuben Thomas via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-02-14 18:08 ` martin rudalics
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