Re: flyspell bug

[David Kastrup]

Piet van Oostrum <address@hidden> writes:

> I installed the french dictionary and found the bug.
>
> The problem is that ispell considers "local.h" an incorrect word,
> but flyspell-word (and ispell-word) when checking consider "h" the
> word in question and consider it good. The reason is that ispell.el
> and ispell the program don't agree on what's a word. In francais.aff
> the boundarychars are [-'address@hidden and in the ispell-dictionary-alist 
> only
> [-']. Therefore ispell the program considers "local.h" one word and
> ispell.el considers it two words.  I don't know why "." and "@" are
> included in the affix file (especially "@" seems strange) but I
> guess a French person might explain it. Anyway it helps to add "."
> and "@" to otherchars in the ispell-dictionary-alist entry for
> francais. By the way, I don't think aspell considers "@" to be a
> boundarychar.

That does not sound like a robust solution, and it will change along
with languages.  There is no good way to make mostly irrelevant
whether Emacs and flyspell don't quite agree on word boundaries?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum