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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I have been working with flyspell and have found correcting words with fly= spell spectacularly frustrating.=C2=A0=20 "flyspell-correct-word" is annoyingly only bound to a mouse click.=20 "flyspell-correct-word-before-point" is also bound to a mouse click or one= can use "M-x flyspell-correct-word-before-point". Another big problem is that the menu of possible corrections.that is displ= ayed covers the buffer.=C2=A0 If I have a long list of completions, the menu co= vers the text. Although ispell works better, the way one selects the replacement word is = also cumbersome. emacs has the icomplete (incremental minibuffer compeltion preview) which = works very well without affecting the viewing of the buffer.=C2=A0 One drawback = with icomplete is that the completions are not shown in a vertical way as done in ivy. On Apr 27, 2020, Omar Antol=C3=ADn Camarena released icomplete-vertical.el= , but the=20 functionality has not really been introduced in the official emacs and imp= roved upon. If there was the capability for vertical spelling correction with vertical= listing mimicking ivy, things will be much better for correcting words with flyspell. Omar Antol=C3=ADn Camarena also wrote orderless.el, a very useful package = that provides orderless completion style in the minibuffer. This would be very good to h= ave in=20 official emacs as well.=20 =C2=A0 ------=_NextPart_001_60c83edb_636f_7ade2edb Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I have been working with flyspell and have found correcting words = with flyspell
spectacularly frustrating.=C2=A0
"flyspell-correct-word" is annoyingly only bound to a= mouse click.

"flyspell-correct-word-bef= ore-point" is also bound to a mouse click or one can
use &qu= ot;M-x flyspell-correct-word-before-point".

A= nother big problem is that the menu of possible corrections.that is displayed
covers the buffer.=C2=A0 = If I have a long list of completions, the menu covers the text.
<= div>
Although ispell works better, the way one selects the re= placement word is also
cumbersome.

emacs= has the icomplete (incremental minibuffer compeltion preview) which works<= /div>
very well without affecting the viewing of the buffer.=C2=A0 One = drawback with icomplete
is that the completions are not shown in = a vertical way as done in ivy.

On Apr 27, 2020, Omar Antol=C3=ADn Camarena released = icomplete-vertical.el, but the
functionality has not really been introduce= d in the official emacs and improved upon.

If= there was the capability for vertical spelling correction with vertical li= sting mimicking
ivy, thin= gs will be much better for correcting words with flyspell.

Omar Antol=C3=ADn Camarena also wrote orderless.el, a v= ery useful package that provides
orderless completion style in the minibuffer. This would = be very good to have in
official emacs as well. =C2=A0
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