From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:28:34 -0400 Message-ID: References: <47F4A79C.6000006@alice.it> <47F4CD60.8010802@gmx.at> <47F4FDB9.6010306@gmx.at> <47F5040B.2070900@gmail.com> <47F51288.8000805@gmx.at> <47F51885.1090109@gmail.com> <47F54544.1050701@gmx.at> <47F54895.2070503@gmail.com> <47F54F85.4050206@gmx.at> <47F5D0CD.3070704@gmx.at> <100BA692-158E-431E-ABEF-3EBC45452CDC@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207434584 4471 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2008 22:29:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rudalics@gmx.at, pj@heslin.eclipse.co.uk, claus.klingberg@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 06 00:30:16 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JiGtq-000673-CB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:30:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiGtD-0001y0-G6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiGsH-0000ld-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:28:37 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiGsG-0000kY-DM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiGsG-0000kR-6L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JiGsF-0007xa-SM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1JiGsE-0006dg-Cq; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:28:34 -0400 In-reply-to: <100BA692-158E-431E-ABEF-3EBC45452CDC@gmail.com> (message from David Reitter on Sat, 5 Apr 2008 12:18:59 +0100) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:94453 Archived-At: > It is a very bad idea to link other appls such as Aspell into Emacs. > It would cause constant maintenance trouble. So we definitely should > not do this. That's not what I suggested. I was thinking of using documented and stable APIs for spell-checking. What's the difference? That looks like a different way of describing the same thing. It is a very bad idea. The interface between Emacs and Aspell is very stable, but what is really important is that these two programs are NOT linked together.