From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Brett Gilio Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:01:36 -0500 Message-ID: <2e2b282a-4693-5bbb-3144-3899e455607b@posteo.net> References: <974173872.5393015.1531407541695.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <86va9k9xav.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531446832 5909 195.159.176.226 (13 Jul 2018 01:53:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 01:53:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/52.7.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 13 03:53:48 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 1fdnHH-0001Rh-QK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:53:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34820 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdnJO-0006Ku-V0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:55:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40785) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdimF-00035B-87 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:05:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdimD-000276-R5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:05:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:33183) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdimD-00026C-0P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:05:25 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C1B112105A for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:05:23 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1531429523; bh=N6fmW0MIs7MIviIlFDt9efvLzwK0GgB9azGjsV4f9XY=; h=Subject:To:From:Date:From; b=QCuP/A7E+5WsyV2i0ANj2srPhMVjZcCHhDW5XV0qHD+kaA+A9KJONYKP3VZeXuvMt IXjA5eLUDQgZ9EM2Eprvt6NK+ym6VNbd1uIpa7VdajUAc1G/Mcphbbv113QnHGzE6n BVRF7050qLHrnRJsQDVk3LCU/BzcW8Ik3oY6cPjedZiJolE4AoBryW4c+RyD06Ivzm djS3Ggk09VKsu0j5RVpnwOXBe87OSeSXxjARgy/KfVBt7sMX1jIP2ztipMzBrcXGbe vnmGatwhSHzxjG9jywfSq9yok+4tWH5crZ8hxKn4waCPRWip5zeHCT8sZIvVuiprgZ ArJJ8+//AfzVw== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 41RT3k67SJz9rxL for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 23:05:22 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <86va9k9xav.fsf@zoho.com> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.67.36.65 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 21:52:18 -0400 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:117418 Archived-At: 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 >