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Re: ispell.el and pipes
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André A . Gomes |
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Re: ispell.el and pipes |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Nov 2021 23:40:45 +0300 |
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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.
--
André A. Gomes
"Free Thought, Free World"
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