Re: ispell.el and pipes

[André A . Gomes]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: André A. Gomes <andremegafone@gmail.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:40:19 +0300
>>
>> If the old farts (no offence) insist on using *Choices*, then using
>> ascii characters is silly.  There should be a variable that gives an
>> upper-bound for spelling suggestions perhaps.  If that bound would be 10
>> by default, then just use the digits.  Otherwise, the characters used
>> should be latin lower-case english letters.  (Typing digits is hard).
>> Either one or two letters, depending on the number of suggestions.  That
>> gives as much as (expt 26 2) choices, which is more than enough.
>
> A tempest in a teapot, if you ask me.  I'm a heavy user of
> spell-checking, always have been.  IME, the correct choice is almost
> always '0', rarely '1', i.e. the very first candidates.  If you see
> something else, switch to a different speller.  Or use the drop-down
> menu of Flyspell ("C-c $").

What speller do you use, if I may ask?

Well, it's a tempest in a teapot, since you ignored my starting point.
There's a bug, afaik, and I've described it.  Let me remind you below.

> Is it even possible to select, i.e. type, a characters that is above
> ?~???

> (The historical reason why Ispell uses digits is that this is how the
> UI of the original Ispell worked; Hunspell still behaves the same even
> today.)

Same for aspell.  I'm well aware of these historical details.

On another subject, I wonder what would be worth to burn cycles on.  And
how to deal with the idiosyncrasies of the gatekeepers of this
community.


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André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"