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bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a pe
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 18:42:18 +0200 |
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:27:54 +0000
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 20741@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> It's the same case: references to variables and other symbols in
> comments and strings of a program are very frequent. They are also
> very frequent in email messages which discuss programming, such as
> this discussion (I have Flyspell turned on in all my email buffers).
>
> I think we can distinguish 3 different problems here:
>
> 1. Natural language spellchecking. That's what this issue is about.
> 2. Spell-checking code. (Essentially, identifiers.)
> 3. Finding code inside natural language, and checking it as if it were code.
> (That's what you're talking about
> here.) This is not a spellchecking problem, it's a problem of identifying
> which spell-checking apparatus to
> use, rather like font-lock for multi-language buffers. It's hard to see how
> to do it without some syntactic clue
> (e.g. the use of backticks in markdown), as used in multi-language buffers
> for font-locking.
Like I said: when we talk about this stuff in email, it's both case 1
and case 3.
Anyway: what are the practical proposals for improving this? Are we
going to handle only periods, or does anyone have a more general
solution?
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, (continued)
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/13
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Reuben Thomas, 2022/02/13
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/14
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Reuben Thomas, 2022/02/14
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Stephen Berman, 2022/02/14
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/14
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Reuben Thomas, 2022/02/14
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Reuben Thomas, 2022/02/14
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, martin rudalics, 2022/02/14