[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 308 bytes --] Hi, ispell-message does not check Subject fields, when it finds a sequence with "re ". And in French, there are a lot of words ending with "re"... Please find attached a patch, that fixes the problem. The "Re: " is hardcoded here, just as in message-reply. Kind regards, -- Peter [-- Attachment #1.2: my.patch --] [-- Type: text/x-patch, Size: 775 bytes --] commit 686bd0550797d0ec6225267914cef5cb0e5a61f6 Author: Peter Münster <pm@a16n.net> Date: Thu Nov 25 14:25:18 2021 +0100 Fix spelling of subject line * lisp/textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-message): Only subjects starting with "Re: " are real replies. diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el index 4087f7e5f2..ce8a82cda7 100644 --- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el +++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el @@ -3977,7 +3977,7 @@ ispell-message (if (re-search-forward "^Subject: *" end-of-headers t) (progn (goto-char (match-end 0)) - (if (and (not (looking-at ".*Re\\>")) + (if (and (not (looking-at "Re: ")) (not (looking-at "\\["))) (progn (setq case-fold-search old-case-fold-search) [-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --] [-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 211 bytes --]
Peter Münster <pm@a16n.net> writes: > ispell-message does not check Subject fields, when it finds a sequence > with "re ". And in French, there are a lot of words ending with "re"... > > Please find attached a patch, that fixes the problem. > > The "Re: " is hardcoded here, just as in message-reply. ... - (if (and (not (looking-at ".*Re\\>")) + (if (and (not (looking-at "Re: ")) I think this is too strict -- there may not be a : after the Re, and there is often some locale-specific mistranslation of Re somewhere. So I think the right fix here is ".*\\<Re\\>", which I've done in Emacs 29. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no