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Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries


From: martin rudalics
Subject: Re: Fly-spelling with multiple dictionaries
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:15:25 +0200
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206)

>  > You're talking to one of the persons who are convinced that Emacs and
>  > XEmacs should (and do) profit from each other.
>
> I'm also one, and therefore object to calling parallel development in
> *friendly* competition a waste.

We agree here.

> I am sad that the GNU legal
> requirements present a barrier to flow of code and to some extent
> ideas from XEmacs to Emacs, but again that is a necessary outcome of
> the difference in goals.  (The same kind of thing is a feature of GPL
> vs. BSD competition, of course.)
>
>  > Agreed - if we were talking about Ispell and Aspell.  Unfortunately,
>  > development of these packages merely stalled and the newer ones like
>  > Hunspell are hardly useful for Emacs (and XEmacs).
>
> Well, I don't know about that.  Again, the parallel to Emacsen fails.

It was meant as a parallel to hypothetical, non-existing Emacsen.  As a
parallel to Emacs and XEmacs it fails.

> In any case, we should think about what to do about this.  Adapt
> Emacsen?  Adapt the new spell-checkers?  Ignore them?





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