From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About how misspelled word are displayed Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 11:53:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87tw4p84lk.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <3993ee96-42e7-e597-f7d0-306003faa235@alice.it> <4bf8d1cf-5287-f74e-d6c5-938bbf295d6c@alice.it> <557766eb-48c0-4eaf-8c08-459b2376da8c@default> <93224ad6-b08b-ad39-6a0e-1e03f42b19ad@alice.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494669286 11964 195.159.176.226 (13 May 2017 09:54:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 09:54:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (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 May 13 11:54:38 2017 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 1d9Tkz-0002sY-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 11:54:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Tl3-0001hK-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 05:54:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40646) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Tkc-0001h7-Jv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 05:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9TkY-0002Vb-Ob for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 05:54:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=39756 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9TkY-0002VG-I6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 05:54:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d9TkQ-0002DB-La for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 11:54:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:DxixplxVtzMHvKOYfFxwNRcgjLU= 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:113017 Archived-At: John Mastro writes: >> By the way flyspell isn't such a good idea. It is >> disruptive to do this as you type. Better to focus >> on typing (hands) and looking (eyes) and thinking >> (brain). When you are done writing, you can do >> ispell once. It also has different gears depending >> on what buffer you are in - for example, in a code >> buffer, only strings and comments are checked. > > FWIW, flyspell also has that feature, > `flyspell-prog-mode'. Okay, flyspell is probably not bad in terms of its technology, it is the idea that is perhaps not exactly bad, but difficult to make work. > I half-agree with you about on-the-fly spell > checking, mostly because I find the inevitable false > positives somewhat distracting. That's exactly it. -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573