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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:15:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a7qvehco.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2e2b282a-4693-5bbb-3144-3899e455607b@posteo.net> (message from Brett Gilio on Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:01:36 -0500)

> From: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:01:36 -0500
> 
> I completely second everything you said, Emanuel. Spell checking on the 
> fly is not only extremely prone to false-errors, but it also poses a lot 
> of issues with emacs performance and even some false errors with 
> packages like helm (in my experience).

No one needs to use a feature they don't like.

I personally find Flyspell useful in text-mode buffers, like
ChangeLog, Texinfo mode, mail-mode, and other modes where I write
human-readable text.  It keeps me from making stupid typos.
Performance is not an issue normally in these modes, where most of the
time I just think what to write next anyway.

I almost never turn on Flyspell in program source buffers.  YMMV.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-13  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <974173872.5393015.1531407541695.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-07-12 14:59 ` Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest R. Diez
2018-07-12 16:26   ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.3464.1531407559.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-12 17:30   ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-12 21:01     ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-13  7:15       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-07-13 11:31       ` Gregor Zattler
2018-07-13 12:50         ` Devin Prater
2018-07-13 13:35         ` Teemu Likonen
     [not found]         ` <mailman.3518.1531488931.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-13 14:42           ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-13  7:41     ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-13 17:08       ` Bob Newell
2018-07-14  8:58         ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-14  9:15           ` tomas
2018-07-14 17:47           ` Bob Newell
2018-07-14 18:59             ` Devin Prater
2018-07-15  1:45           ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-15  2:42             ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3502.1531467702.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-13 10:22       ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-13 17:04         ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-13 19:02           ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-14  9:01             ` Eric S Fraga
     [not found]         ` <mailman.3536.1531501486.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-13 18:41           ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-13 19:06             ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-14  9:03               ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-14  9:02             ` Eric S Fraga
     [not found] <1186940967.5630978.1531432200575.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-07-12 21:50 ` R. Diez
2018-07-13  6:35   ` Eli Zaretskii

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