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Support for enchant?

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From: Reuben Thomas <rrt <at> sc3d.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 17742 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17742: Acknowledgement (Support for enchant?)
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 21:17:25 +0000

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On 13 December 2016 at 18:54, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

>
> I'm okay with installing this, provided that the above-mentioned issue
> is taken care of, if only by leaving it to the user to provide the
> dictionary entries by hand.  I don't think it's a good idea to
> auto-generate entries that are only 80% correct, as that will
> certainly trigger bug reports.
>

​Agreed. I have prepared a separate patch (so it can be easily reverted
later) to disable the use of ispell-find-enchant-dictionaries, along with a
rationale in comments.

If that is satisfactory, I can add NEWS documentation for the new feature,
along with a warning about its limitations, and install the patches.

-- 
http://rrt.sc3d.org

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[0002-Disable-auto-scanning-of-Enchant-dictionaries.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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