bug#38027: Perhaps make an ispell-report-bug function

bug#38027: Perhaps make an ispell-report-bug function

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

Maybe there should be a ispell-report-bug function,
that digs up the proper place to report:
----
If one loses their mind...
If one looses their mind...
If one loooses their mind...

Emacs only underlines the third as a misspelling.
(ispell-buffer)
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bug#38027: Perhaps make an ispell-report-bug function

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 38027 + notabug
close 38027
thanks

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>:
> Maybe there should be a ispell-report-bug function,
> that digs up the proper place to report:

We are moving away from that in favour of M-x report-emacs-bug.  See
etc/TODO for more information.

> ----
> If one loses their mind...
> If one looses their mind...
> If one loooses their mind...
>
> Emacs only underlines the third as a misspelling.

That's correct, since only the third spelling is invalid.  The words
"lose" and "loose" both exist but have different meanings.

(And in any case, incorrect spellings are not controlled by Emacs but
should be reported to aspell/ispell/hunspell or whatever spelling
software you're using.)

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#38027: Perhaps make an ispell-report-bug function

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

SK> (And in any case, incorrect spellings are not controlled by Emacs but
SK> should be reported to aspell/ispell/hunspell or whatever spelling
SK> software you're using.)

OK but only emacs knows which one it is using, so there should be a
genric function to "report spelling bug"... that at least could make a
template telling the user to "report the following to the nurdspell people."

bug#38027: Perhaps make an ispell-report-bug function

[Stefan Kangas]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> SK> (And in any case, incorrect spellings are not controlled by Emacs but
> SK> should be reported to aspell/ispell/hunspell or whatever spelling
> SK> software you're using.)
>
> OK but only emacs knows which one it is using, so there should be a
> genric function to "report spelling bug"... that at least could make a
> template telling the user to "report the following to the nurdspell people."

Well, we have M-x customize-group RET ispell RET where one can see the
value of ispell-program-name.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

bug#38027: Perhaps make an ispell-report-bug function

[Richard Stallman]

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  > If one loses their mind...
  > If one looses their mind...
  > If one loooses their mind...

  > Emacs only underlines the third as a misspelling.
  > (ispell-buffer)

"Looses" is a valid word, just different.
"To loose" means "to let loose".

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)

bug#38027: Perhaps make an ispell-report-bug function

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

>>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

RMS> "Looses" is a valid word, just different.
RMS> "To loose" means "to let loose".

(Yeah, well as I noted on
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Talk:looses
it's 99% of the time a misspelling of loses.)

bug#38027: Perhaps make an ispell-report-bug function

[積丹尼 Dan Jacobson]

By the way
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> To: ç©.丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Cc: 38027@debbugs.gnu.org
your mailer is mangling CJK names. Better get it fixed.