From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 37141@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37141: 27.0.50; spelling doesn't work in XML comments
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:29:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190822142942.GB1999@cventin.lip.ens-lyon.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835zmpcmka.fsf@gnu.org>
On 2019-08-22 17:16:37 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > That's a feature, see ispell-skip-html.
> >
> > This is not documented in the Emacs manual.
>
> We don't document every obscure feature in the manual, that would make
> it too large. Some user options are left out. I don't see why this
> one is important enough to add it, sorry.
That's not an obscure feature. The default is actually very silly.
There's no reason to exclude XML comments by default.
> > BTW, XML is not HTML.
>
> Yes, and neither is SGML. But a variable has a doc string, which is
> supposed to say more than just the name.
A user who does not know this variable and what it does will never
find it. Moreover, the doc string makes no sense. People should
learn how to write good documentation.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-22 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-22 13:10 bug#37141: 27.0.50; spelling doesn't work in XML comments Vincent Lefevre
2019-08-22 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-22 13:50 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-08-22 14:15 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-08-22 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-22 15:01 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-08-22 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-22 15:47 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-08-22 16:07 ` Vincent Lefevre
2019-08-22 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-22 14:29 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2019-08-22 14:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-08-22 15:12 ` Vincent Lefevre
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