Re: ispell.el, flyspell.el: better ispell/aspell switching

[Stefan Monnier]

>> BTW (this is unrelated to this patch, but I just noticed it while
>> looking at the code): why are ispell-dictionary-alist* autoloaded?
>> I just tried to remove the autoloads on them and I couldn't notice any
>> negative effect.

> Could it be because people tend to append or prepend to them in .emacs,
> rather than setting them outright?

I don't think so: there's ispell-local-dictionary-alist for that.

But I now suspect it is done for hysterical raisins: the "Tools => Spell
checking" menu used to list the available dictionaries (even before
ispell.el was loaded).

Now that we have removed those menu entries, I guess it doesn't need to
be preloaded.


        Stefan