From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix misspelling in flyspell.el Date: Sat, 07 Nov 2015 10:01:01 +0100 Message-ID: <87d1vmqj3m.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <1446844583-3860-1-git-send-email-keshav.kini@gmail.com> <20151106214630.GB1829@acm.fritz.box> <834mgyqjzs.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1446886872 11640 80.91.229.3 (7 Nov 2015 09:01:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:01:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , keshav.kini@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 07 10:01:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuzMz-0003cI-Hd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 10:01:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42826 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuzMz-0006ka-08 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 04:01:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35249) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuzMu-0006kG-U7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 04:01:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuzMu-0006ZH-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 04:01:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuzMs-0006Z5-RV; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 04:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52810 helo=lola) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ZuzMs-0004Ai-5N; Sat, 07 Nov 2015 04:01:02 -0500 Original-Received: by lola (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 81D72DF3C9; Sat, 7 Nov 2015 10:01:01 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <834mgyqjzs.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 07 Nov 2015 10:41:43 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:193504 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 21:46:30 +0000 >> From: Alan Mackenzie >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org >> >> > - (message "No more miss-spelled word!")))) >> > + (message "No more misspelled words!")))) >> >> > ;;*---------------------------------------------------------------------*/ >> > ;;* flyspell-overlay-p ... */ >> > -- >> > 2.6.2 >> >> I think there's a good chance that that missssspelling is deliberate, a >> little joke, something to irritate people slightly with. It would be a >> shame to correct it. > > Given the person who wrote that code, I agree with Alan. Since flyspell isn't a grammar checker, I'd still advocate replacing "word" with "words" in the message. "No more ... word!" seems like stretching the concept of the joke. -- David Kastrup