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bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?) |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:54:56 +0200 |
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 18:26:43 +0000
> Cc: 17742@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> I understand that Enchant doesn't yet support these features, but in
> that case we must provide our users with some way of customizing these
> settings, we cannot silently use defaults that are most probably
> inappropriate, even if they are 90% correct.
>
> The way to customize it is surely the same as currently, namely to
> customize ispell-dictionary-alist?
That's okay, but then ispell.el shouldn't be generating dictionary
entries, but instead should leave that to the user, as we do with
Ispell.
> Given that even management of personal word lists needs a patch to Enchant,
> it seems to me better to first
> try to engage with the Enchant maintainers on this. There's also one obvious
> question, namely, what do other
> Enchant users do? Enchant is used in Abiword (free word processor), Pidgin
> (free IM client) etc. So, I shall
> look into this.
Thanks.
> However, I think that this patch can be installed anyway, as out of the box
> Enchant will never be used (as I
> have commented in the code, auto-detection of Enchant is not safe until a new
> version is widespread, as
> unlike old versions of ispell and aspell, a current version of Enchant is not
> merely lacking functions, it is
> useless), and for some Emacs users, it could be useful, as it allows access
> to spellcheckers currently
> unsupported by Emacs (albeit, as you note, probably requiring customized
> dictionary setup).
I'm okay with installing this, provided that the above-mentioned issue
is taken care of, if only by leaving it to the user to provide the
dictionary entries by hand. I don't think it's a good idea to
auto-generate entries that are only 80% correct, as that will
certainly trigger bug reports.
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/05
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/06
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/06
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/12
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/13
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/13
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/13
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/13
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/14
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/15
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/18
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/18
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Reuben Thomas, 2016/12/19
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/19
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Agustin Martin, 2016/12/19
- bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?), Eli Zaretskii, 2016/12/19