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: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 20:45:43 -0500 Message-ID: <874lh146go.fsf@posteo.net> References: <974173872.5393015.1531407541695.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <86va9k9xav.fsf@zoho.com> <877elzoa5i.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> <8736wmkxbs.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1531619800 10894 195.159.176.226 (15 Jul 2018 01:56:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 01:56:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: mu4e 1.0; emacs 26.1 Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 15 03:56:36 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 1feWH6-0002j6-Ar for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 03:56:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1feWJB-000438-HK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 21:58:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1feWId-00041t-OD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 21:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1feWIa-0000ZJ-EB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 21:58:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mout01.posteo.de ([185.67.36.65]:39908) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1feWIa-0000Yz-6S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2018 21:58:08 -0400 Original-Received: from submission (posteo.de [89.146.220.130]) by mout01.posteo.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFE4E211CD for ; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 03:58:06 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=posteo.net; s=2017; t=1531619886; bh=jwmoEPGY5ygkmqZ/1N8cM/qgzIZLgaNDO4O/b0v3zXQ=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=UH/VTnqLOXJ0wggfoyY4BQMqOimT5QRgdPv0d2bJUhC96T7kKmzmlzqZZbpwpZ1XB ay7zjtn0v8E+RDGU3Ebx5IjwhnbG0HC0DdY3u+ya3KLf9Nz4xgCwscfr4yM7Ie8g4n MSZq9RdKpG7iNTdOLiQ7Xuviy/3rpHGP2bR97tEBx6kdS89tPvE7ai068AQ193gYjV Q4MKZwE+gKpBcQjOdq9ze5YAsbqv8BVnLu6d0jd7f+Ul8qH8GN+f+iY/4VRwq/5v9e NW43d62ASxDg5L2/3q/tHrofEqK5nq9YubRFQc2itU+HXfzfkto34cWImGxBemXnai 1/olVMg8PREkw== Original-Received: from customer (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by submission (posteo.de) with ESMTPSA id 41SqSY3Ndkz9rxH; Sun, 15 Jul 2018 03:58:05 +0200 (CEST) In-reply-to: <8736wmkxbs.fsf@delle7240.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> 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-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:117451 Archived-At: 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 https://parabola.nu | https://emacs.org