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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ispell-buffer skips repetitive suspects after the first is accepted
Date: Thu, 07 May 2015 17:58:12 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <837fskqvsr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DUB124-W472DD6471F1F8510C84138A8DF0@phx.gbl>

> From: Jürgen Hartmann <juergen_hartmann_@hotmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 10:14:21 +0200
> 
> If a suspicious word is accepted once by pressing <SPC> in an interactive
> ispell-buffer session, all further occurrences of the same word on the same
> line are skipped.
> 
> Here is an example:
> 
> Open an Emacs 24.5 session (it is the same with Emacs 24.4) by
> 
>    LC_ALL=C emacs -Q
> 
> and enter the following line in the *scratch* buffer:
> 
>    The term charset is short for charset.
> 
> Assume that the last word is a typo that should read "character set". Now
> change the dictionary to american and run ispell-buffer. The first occurrence
> of "charset" gets highlighted, but since it is correct here, we use <SPC> to
> accept it once an proceed. But oops... the spell-check finishes immediately
> without giving us the chance to correct the second occurrence of "charset" in
> that line.
> 
> Is this a bug or a difficult to understand feature.

Looks like a deliberate "feature": the comment there explicitly says:

              ;; Do not recheck accepted word on this line.

Can't say I understand why, so feel free to file a bug report.




  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-07 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07  8:14 ispell-buffer skips repetitive suspects after the first is accepted Jürgen Hartmann
2015-05-07 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-05-07 23:01   ` Francis Belliveau
2015-05-08  5:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-10  9:23       ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-05-11 23:30         ` Francis Belliveau
2015-05-13  9:22           ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-05-10  9:08     ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-05-10  8:54   ` Jürgen Hartmann

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