Re: jinx

[Arash Esbati]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Please submit patches to do that, it shouldn't be hard.

I tried it as I wrote tex-ispell.el but I didn't understand flyspell.el
enough back then.  Maybe I give it a new try, but I wouldn't hold my
breath for that.

> (I wonder why the built-in TeX support in the spell-checker doesn't do
> this job, it's supposed to be adequate, and all Emacs needs to do is
> to tell the speller it is working on TeX text.  So I don't even
> understand why we need to skip something on our own in these cases.)

I can only tell for hunspell: It has built-in support for skipping of
many macro arguments and environments[1], but:

  a) It is not complete (and probably will never be)
  b) It cannot work for user defined macros/environments, and this is
  where AUCTeX/ispell shine: AUCTeX can parse user defined
  macros/environments and add them automatically to
  `ispell-tex-skip-alists'.
  c) Another advantage of `ispell-tex-skip-alists' is that one can write
  a function and put that in `ispell-tex-skip-alists' for certain
  macros/environments: That gives us a lot of flexibility to precisely
  skip or check.

Best, Arash

Footnotes:
[1]  
https://github.com/hunspell/hunspell/blob/e7ccb97fde9d7e9a81c920a3e255ad98426692f8/src/parsers/latexparser.cxx#L53