From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:01 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <47F5D0CD.3070704@gmx.at> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207393580 16967 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2008 11:06:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 11:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, pj@heslin.eclipse.co.uk, claus.klingberg@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 05 13:06:51 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 1Ji6ER-00066j-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:06:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ji6Do-0002pw-Hj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ji6Dk-0002lD-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:04 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ji6Di-0002hN-Iy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ji6Di-0002gy-Cv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ji6Di-00025J-4J for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ji6Dh-0004UQ-1H; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 07:06:01 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from David Reitter on Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:07:56 +0100) 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:94398 Archived-At: > Ispell/Aspell are, to my knowledge, the only spell-checkers providing > the piping mechanism Emacs uses - Hunspell has a C(++) interface only. > Currently, all we do is send some buffer text to the spell-checker and > wait what the spell-checker tells us about that text. A C++ interface wouldn't be all that different. If the (elisp level) spell-checking package provided clear separation between UI and accessing the spell-checker (the API that I'd like), then support for other spell-checkers could be implemented easily. It is a very bad idea to link other appls such as Aspell into Emacs. It would cause constant maintenance trouble. So we definitely should not do this.