Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries

[David Reitter]

On 5 Apr 2008, at 12:06, Richard Stallman wrote:
>    A C++ interface wouldn't be all that different.  If the (elisp  
> level)
>    spell-checking package provided clear separation between UI and
>    accessing the spell-checker (the API that I'd like), then support  
> for
>    other spell-checkers could be implemented easily.
>
> It is a very bad idea to link other appls such as Aspell into Emacs.
> It would cause constant maintenance trouble.  So we definitely should
> not do this.


That's not what I suggested.  I was thinking of using documented and  
stable APIs for spell-checking.

What I believe is missing now is a clear separation between UI and the  
code that interfaces the spell-checker. ispell.el mixes UI, text  
extraction ("skipping") and interfacing the backend.