From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: henri-biard@francemel.fr
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 49037@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#49037: flyspell word correction frustrating
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 21:29:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sg1j2d8d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea-mime-60c8f05b-5b74-6588b651@www-7.mailo.com> (henri-biard@francemel.fr)
> From: henri-biard@francemel.fr
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org,
> 49037@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2021 20:24:27 +0200 (CEST)
>
> >> 1. It does not tell me that aspell is the default
>
> >Why should it? You set up your system with whatever spell-checker you
> >want, and Emacs uses that. It is not Emacs's business to tell you
> >which spell-checker to install and use.
>
> I have multiple ones and make comparisons between them. So I really want to know
> what it uses. After all the information is there and that is what emacs actually does.
> Should I not be able to easily know what it is doing under the hood. Emacs Self
> Documentation should help me with that.
Documentation cannot tell everything; if it tried, it'd become too
long and hard to read. The details you are after are in the source
code; the documentation of each variable has a link to the source,
where you can see the gory details.
> >> 3. It does not describe that it searches PATH.
>
> >That's an implementation detail. If you want to know those details,
> >you have the source to read and study. The user manual explains how
> >to use the commands, not how the commands work.
>
> Explains with no examples or much description of ispell-program-name, which
> for me is very important.
Yours is a rare situation, so you shouldn't expect it to be covered in
the general documentation.
> Because Gnu Aspell was designed to replace Ispell, how about deprecating Ispell
> and simply have emacs-ispell be the general framework for orthographic study.
We already did that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-15 18:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-15 5:47 bug#49037: flyspell word correction frustrating henri-biard
2021-06-15 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-15 15:23 ` henri-biard
2021-06-15 15:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-06-15 16:34 ` henri-biard
2021-06-15 16:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-15 17:08 ` henri-biard
2021-06-15 17:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-15 18:24 ` henri-biard
2021-06-15 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-06-15 19:35 ` henri-biard
2021-06-15 20:00 ` henri-biard
2021-06-15 17:59 ` Glenn Morris
2021-06-15 15:55 ` Robert Pluim
2021-06-15 16:48 ` henri-biard
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