Re: position on changing defaults?

[Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>]

>   > >   > > - flyspell-mode on by default for text-mode
>   > >   >
>   > >   > I indeed have it on in text-mode (and programming modes as well, as
>   > >   > a matter of fact),
>   > >
>   > > Same here.
>   > >
>   > > Another related point: flyspell-prog-mode is even more obscure than
>   > > flyspell.  How do we make it's availability more obvious to programmers?
>   >
>   > Like all other features, to make them more available to users, we should
>   > add more commands to the main menu.  Most newbies tend using this menu
>   > where they can discover hidden features.
>
> Flyspell is pretty well hidden in the Tools / Spell Checking menu.

In some programs the menu item to turn on/off an analogy of flyspell is
in the context menu invoked by mouse-3.

> Where would flyspell-prog-mode go? Maybe in the major mode menu? We'd
> have to add it by hand to all the relevant major modes.
> Which is doable.  But what if a user wants to turn on flyspell-prog-mode
> by default for all programming languages? The only way to do that now is
> to add a bunch of `add-hook's in .emacs
> It would be nice to have a generic solution for all these (no idea what
> that might be...)

Maybe the global flyspell-prog-mode should have an user option with
a list of modes where it is on?

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/