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bug#52331: M-$ doesn't respect subword mode
From: |
André A . Gomes |
Subject: |
bug#52331: M-$ doesn't respect subword mode |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Dec 2021 17:21:28 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> However, and the Emacs maintainers will probably agree, the
>> responsibility of sending the "right" word to the ispell sub-process
>> should be on Emacs' side. I.e., when subword-mode is on, there should
>> be a call to word-at-point before sending it to the spell checker.
>
> It's not that easy, unfortunately. ispell.el has its own rules for
> what is a word, and the rules aren't static, they are determined
> dynamically by the definition of the dictionary. That's because of at
> least 2 reasons: (1) the rules must match what the dictionary
> considers a word, and (2) spell-checking is expected to work in
> buffers that mix several languages, so the rules need to be sensitive
> to the language of the dictionary and reject "words" whose letters are
> not part of the language.
Correct, my comment was over simplistic. But I don't see where my
reasoning fails. I can't think of an example where calling
word-at-point before the ispell rules kick in would make harm. What am
I missing?
> So perhaps a better approach is to teach subword-mode about the word
> rules of ispell.el, not the other way around. Patches welcome.
I don't see how this could help. Care to expand a bit?
--
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"