From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:30:16 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86va9k9xav.fsf@zoho.com> References: <974173872.5393015.1531407541695.ref@mail.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531416808 9190 195.159.176.226 (12 Jul 2018 17:33:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:33:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 12 19:33:24 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 1fdfT2-0002HX-2h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 19:33:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33307 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fdfV6-0006B3-VN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:35:32 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: onLrbz09yV+MU3RaxdbMkg.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:z5CvcfY6OUZLlOsUYhxdP7/g8/4= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:223290 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:117413 Archived-At: 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 -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573