Re: Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest

[Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>]

Eric S Fraga writes:
> Exactly and that's one of its most important selling points: my 
> Emacs is
> not your Emacs or anybody else's.  It works the way *I* want it 
> and
> yours works how you want it.  Indication of a software system 
> done well
> in my view.

This is quite literally the privilege of not only GNU/Linux, but 
Emacs
as a whole, the ability to have a capacity for individual 
workflows to
an unprecedented level. There is no monolithic way to achieve a 
certain
task, to produce a specific outcome. While there are ways more 
custom to
be "correct" or traditional, Emacs (or anything derived from a 
Lisp) is
rarely included in this procedure the way other applications are.

The strength of Emacs lies in its community and its ability to 
perform
such a vast variety of tasks in a way that is simply uncomparable.

As far as Flyspell goes, the documentation in my opinion seems 
more or
less clear, and is not in any way intended to obfuscate the 
end-user
from its use with precision. However, there are parts of it that 
may be
dated.




-- 
Brett M. Gilio
Free Software Foundation, Member
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