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From: "Jürgen Hartmann" <juergen_hartmann_@hotmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: ispell-buffer skips repetitive suspects after the first is accepted
Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 11:22:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DUB124-W27BFB27B32FFF8F2BE9341A8D90@phx.gbl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33612209-092D-4B13-AE1F-E2180795281E@comcast.net>

Francis Belliveau wrote:

> Ok Juergen, I see the difference. It is a nuance that I missed since I have
> never used ispell.
>
> However, I still stand on the fact that if the original programmer thought
> this a useful feature, then it should remain available. I acknowledge that
> you think that it is a bad feature, therefore and option should be available
> for users to choose which action they feel appropriate/
>
> I know that in general these types of options can get very prolific. However,
> with proper choice of default behavior, few will have the need to deal with
> them. Also, with proper documentation of options, those that do’t like a
> behavior can get what they want also.

I totally agree with you: If this is an advantageous feature or--to state it
more cautious--a property that others may rely on, it should never be
dropped, of course.

The question is now, whether we face something that is worthy of preservation
here. That's why I formulated the bug report more like "there is something we
don't understand" instead of "please remove that mistake". See

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2015-05/msg00326.html

Juergen

 		 	   		  

  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-13  9:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07  8:14 ispell-buffer skips repetitive suspects after the first is accepted Jürgen Hartmann
2015-05-07 14:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-07 23:01   ` Francis Belliveau
2015-05-08  5:54     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-05-10  9:23       ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-05-11 23:30         ` Francis Belliveau
2015-05-13  9:22           ` Jürgen Hartmann [this message]
2015-05-10  9:08     ` Jürgen Hartmann
2015-05-10  8:54   ` Jürgen Hartmann

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