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bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a pe
From: |
Stephen Berman |
Subject: |
bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:07:43 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:43:12 +0000 Reuben Thomas via "Bug reports for GNU
Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 13:35, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> I don't think I understand what this means in practice. "Use the
> spell-checker" how? Do you mean we should not break words on
> punctuation characters, or do you mean not to break them only on '.',
> or do you mean something else?
>
> Emacs is widely used to edit program sources, where stuff like
> "file.attribute" and "list-my-packages" happens quite frequently.
>
> I wasn't considering this case, and this issue is about checking text
> (or comments or strings) where you can just feed the entire thing to
> the spellchecker, and not have to isolate words "manually", as in
> program source.
>
> In program source (i.e. not strings or comments), the issue currently
> under discussion won't arise, as "." cannot be part of an identifier.
In some languages it can, e.g. R: "Identifiers consist of a sequence of
letters, digits, the period (‘.’) and the underscore."
(https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-lang.html#Identifiers)
Steve Berman
- bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/02/13
- 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 <=
- 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, 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, martin rudalics, 2022/02/14