From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Documenting a preference for US English? Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 11:35:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83376nla24.fsf@gnu.org> References: <08c3b161-174d-1fb7-5df4-bbf7f7d47ee9@orcon.net.nz> <83val1xk58.fsf@gnu.org> <1f3ce5dd-e8b0-6aee-1614-bbe0200baa95@orcon.net.nz> <83y3ox99yb.fsf@gnu.org> <33aed754-b4cf-a75d-837d-14ee596613b1@orcon.net.nz> <83r2ucqqu6.fsf@gnu.org> <8360bnqiy2.fsf@gnu.org> <3b8cac2b-4cd6-b0ef-e42a-01ef58975a01@orcon.net.nz> <838tggmv1s.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507883968 6815 195.159.176.226 (13 Oct 2017 08:39:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 08:39:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 13 10:39:24 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e2vV2-0000ol-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:39:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2vVA-0007G7-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:39:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58439) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2vRX-00057K-QY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:35:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2vRT-0003UD-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:35:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:33603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e2vRT-0003U4-70; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:35:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1250 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1e2vRS-0001fl-Gk; Fri, 13 Oct 2017 04:35:38 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Phil Sainty on Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:24:17 +1300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219440 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2017 10:24:17 +1300 > From: Phil Sainty > Cc: Eli Zaretskii > > There is, however, the following example in lisp/textmodes/ispell.el: > > ;; Local Variables: > ;; mode: emacs-lisp > ;; comment-column: 40 > ;; ispell-check-comments: exclusive > ;; ispell-local-dictionary: "american" > ;; End: > > Perhaps the Emacs repository's .dir-locals.el entry for emacs-lisp-mode > ought to include these ispell variables? That could be problematic, since we have in the repository a small amount of documents that are not written in US English (nor in English in general). For example, the tutorials.