From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:15:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83a7qvehco.fsf@gnu.org> References: <974173872.5393015.1531407541695.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <86va9k9xav.fsf@zoho.com> <2e2b282a-4693-5bbb-3144-3899e455607b@posteo.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531466074 12287 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 07:14:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:14:34 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 09:14:30 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1fdsHd-00035l-P4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 09:14:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdsJk-0006UZ-PL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:16:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50579) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdsIz-0006Th-C7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:15:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdsIw-00021t-07 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:15:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:58244) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdsIv-00021N-Qw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:15:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1561 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fdsIv-0001TX-9r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:15:49 -0400 In-reply-to: <2e2b282a-4693-5bbb-3144-3899e455607b@posteo.net> (message from Brett Gilio on Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:01:36 -0500) 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117423 Archived-At: > From: Brett Gilio > 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.