Re: auto-detect multiple languages -- ispell-detect.el

["Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>
>> Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2024 08:14:10 +0200
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> 
>> >> (setq ispell-silently-savep t)
>> >
>> > That just sweeps the problem under the carpet, because users
>> > shouldn't need to save the personal dictionary more than
>> > once in a session.
>> 
>> Here, "the problem" is spelling multiple languages in the
>> same buffer.
>
> The "problem" I meant was asking the user multiple times.
>
>> >> How does Hunspell know vad som är vilket språk if they
>> >> are intermixed?
>> >
>> > It checks the words in all the dictionaries.
>> 
>> Yes, that's the only way to do it?
>> 
>> You can do that with ispell
>
> Not without restarting the speller, which is not the best solution,
> IMO.  And it doesn't work with Flyspell, for example.

Jinx actually allows to do that e.g. I can type German, Finnish and
English in the same buffer without switching the dictionary. Being able
to write like is especially handy when you have English loan words in
your language.

Guess-language only helps if you switch between languages but then stick
only to one language.