From: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:01:36 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e2b282a-4693-5bbb-3144-3899e455607b@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86va9k9xav.fsf@zoho.com>
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).
/If/ you need spell-checking, I second ispell.
Brett Gilio
brettg@posteo.net | bmg@member.fsf.org
Free Software -- Free Society!
On 07/12/2018 12:30 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> R. Diez wrote:
>
>> I have been trying to use Flyspell, and
>> I found it difficult to configure.
>
> Spell check on the fly isn't a good idea.
> Too many "errors" which aren't errors but
> acronyms, proper nouns, lingo, and just
> ordinary everyday word which for some reason
> aren't in the dictionary.
>
> And, again, way too many for any sane person to
> ever complete the dictionary with a local one.
> Is my experience, at least.
>
> And the consequence of this (too many false
> errors) is a disruptive rhythm to your thinking
> and typing process.
>
> Ispell is better. Choose the biggest dictionary
> you can find (e.g., the "iamerican-insane" in the
> Debian software repos).
>
> Here is some configurations and helpers on
> ispell:
>
> http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/spell-new.el
>
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <974173872.5393015.1531407541695.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-07-12 14:59 ` Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest R. Diez
2018-07-12 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3464.1531407559.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-12 17:30 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-12 21:01 ` Brett Gilio [this message]
2018-07-13 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-07-13 11:31 ` Gregor Zattler
2018-07-13 12:50 ` Devin Prater
2018-07-13 13:35 ` Teemu Likonen
[not found] ` <mailman.3518.1531488931.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-13 14:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-13 7:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-13 17:08 ` Bob Newell
2018-07-14 8:58 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-14 9:15 ` tomas
2018-07-14 17:47 ` Bob Newell
2018-07-14 18:59 ` Devin Prater
2018-07-15 1:45 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-15 2:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3502.1531467702.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-13 10:22 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-13 17:04 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-13 19:02 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-14 9:01 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] ` <mailman.3536.1531501486.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-07-13 18:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2018-07-13 19:06 ` Brett Gilio
2018-07-14 9:03 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-07-14 9:02 ` Eric S Fraga
[not found] <1186940967.5630978.1531432200575.ref@mail.yahoo.com>
2018-07-12 21:50 ` R. Diez
2018-07-13 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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