From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:36:01 +0900 Message-ID: <87y77t8lb2.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <47F4A79C.6000006@alice.it> <47F4CD60.8010802@gmx.at> <47F4FDB9.6010306@gmx.at> <47F5040B.2070900@gmail.com> <47F51288.8000805@gmx.at> <47F51885.1090109@gmail.com> <47F54544.1050701@gmx.at> <47F54895.2070503@gmail.com> <47F54F85.4050206@gmx.at> <47F61CE2.5070409@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207337222 7859 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2008 19:27:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 19:27:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pj@heslin.eclipse.co.uk, Eli Zaretskii , claus.klingberg@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: martin rudalics Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 21:27:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JhrZV-0004xx-Ks for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 21:27:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhrYs-0003hQ-M9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhrYm-0003cd-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JhrYk-0003Xn-4z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:26:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JhrYj-0003X9-QE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:26:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JhrYc-0003EU-Ey; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:26:38 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DDC8001; Sat, 5 Apr 2008 04:26:34 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 379B21A29F3; Sat, 5 Apr 2008 04:36:01 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <47F61CE2.5070409@gmx.at> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 2785829fe37c XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94367 Archived-At: martin rudalics writes: > I use both Ispell and Aspell for some years. Nevertheless, it's a sad > story of wasted resources. Ispell, Pspell, Aspell, Myspell, Hunspell is > like Emacs, XEmacs, I can't speak to the *spell issue, but there was (and is) no alternative to maintaining a fork of Emacs that satisfies the technical goals of the XEmacs developers and the Lucid developers before them, because some of those technical goals (such as modularity in code and in distribution) are unacceptable to GNU. It's not wasted resources, therefore, although the burden imposed on third party developers is unfortunate. I suppose something similar is true of the *spell developers. Vive le logiciel libre!