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bug#50776: add "ispell show where we looked" command
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#50776: add "ispell show where we looked" command |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Sep 2021 19:00:43 +0300 |
> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
> Cc: 50776@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:32:43 +0800
>
> EZ> You are saying that the user who turns on spell-checking has no idea
> EZ> which dictionary (actually, which language) he/she is using?
>
> Yup. An average system has tons of dictionaries and tons of spelling
> commands (within and without emacs,) so without an "strace" it is hard
> to know which is using which.
But then how do you know that spell-checking even makes sense? If you
are spell-checking English text with a French or Japanese or Chinese
dictionary, why would you expect anything useful to come out of that?