From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: 46298@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#46298: 28.0.50; Best default for ispell-program-name
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 2021 13:11:26 +0000 (GMT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f932c411-cc71-f216-eeda-535085f5725@froglet.home.mavit.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1l8crk-0002h6-Et@fencepost.gnu.org>
On Sun, 7 Feb 2021, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > Enchant does seem to be the more modern solution, so it might make sense
> > to have Emacs give it priority.
>
> It seems to be a front end for various spell checkers including Ispell.
> Emacs already knows how to talk with them.
> Does Enchant offer any features of its own?
Emacs ispell.el supports only three spell checkers (plus Enchant), whereas Enchant knows how to talk to seven. My understanding is that general-purpose spell checkers perform particularly badly with some languages, so it would be of particular benefit for languages for which Enchant supports a dedicated checker.
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Peter Oliver
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-04 16:03 bug#46298: 28.0.50; Best default for ispell-program-name Peter Oliver
2021-02-04 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-05 9:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-07 5:44 ` Richard Stallman
2021-02-07 13:11 ` Peter Oliver [this message]
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