From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:58:47 +0200 Organization: On the Interweb somewhere Message-ID: <8736wmkxbs.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <974173872.5393015.1531407541695.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <86va9k9xav.fsf@zoho.com> <877elzoa5i.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531558647 2614 195.159.176.226 (14 Jul 2018 08:57:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 08:57:27 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 14 10:57:23 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 1feGMk-0000bQ-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:57:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40563 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1feGOr-0001Vn-0G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:59:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56756) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1feGOL-0001VW-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1feGOH-0007Am-3n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:59:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41555 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1feGOG-00079S-ST for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 04:58:57 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1feGM5-0008IJ-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 10:56:41 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org X-Url: http://twitter.com/ericsfraga/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mxc4Hgx7ksyojElOJ5uOPLkocJE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:117444 Archived-At: On Friday, 13 Jul 2018 at 07:08, Bob Newell wrote: >>> Spell check on the fly isn't a good idea. >> >> I beg to differ. I love flyspell and use it all the time > > This is why there are options, to suit a wide range of preferences and > needs. Personally, I don't use flyspell (or the equivalent in any > other text input system, including LibreOffice). I mostly write > fiction and don't want distractions--- spell-checking somewhere down > the line is more than good enough. But that's me, and that's my style. > > Emacs certainly is more than big enough to accommodate all sorts of styles. Exactly and that's one of its most important selling points: my Emacs is not your Emacs or anybody else's. It works the way *I* want it and yours works how you want it. Indication of a software system done well in my view. What I really like about flyspell is that I can correct an error some words/sentences/paragraphs back without having to move the cursor (i.e. flyspell-auto-correct-previous-word) and so the disruption to my composing is minimal. Systems like LibreOffice etc. don't have this capability (that I am aware of, of course). -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.1.13 on Debian buster/sid