From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A question about spellchecker Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:11:13 +0300 Message-ID: <83eh177t66.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1396969920 10320 80.91.229.3 (8 Apr 2014 15:12:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 15:12:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: arthur miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 08 17:11:49 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WXXgf-0008P8-EY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 17:11:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40545 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXXge-0004lI-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44470) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXXgV-0004fn-AM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:11:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXXgI-0004nZ-Gz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:11:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:41693) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WXXgI-0004n5-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 11:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N3P00D00WQZOA00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:11:20 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N3P00DEWWUWM140@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Tue, 08 Apr 2014 18:11:20 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:171338 Archived-At: > From: arthur miller > Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 06:21:54 +0200 > > Just a simple question: why is there no spellchecker by default included in Emacs? If you mean as part of Emacs binary, then it's because we didn't see a reason for that, and because doing that has the disadvantage of making Emacs dependent on another project. > Is there some special reason why it is not included in Emacs as a > default fallback so that users don't have to spend hours in > configuring diverse options? Please describe the difficulties you had in configuring hunspell as the speller. It's hard to respond to such general statements. > For me running hunspell as a separate process from Emacs is > painfully slow compared to how some other applications work. How slow is "painfully slow"? Can you provide some numbers? Can you compare the speed of spell-checking an Emacs buffer with doing the same using hunspell's own UI?