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24.5; <SPC> in ispell-buffer accepts spelling for the whole line

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl>
Cc: Jürgen Hartmann <juergen_hartmann_ <at> hotmail.com>, 20543 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20543: 24.5; <SPC> in ispell-buffer accepts spelling for the whole line
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 02:10:50 +0200

Marcin Borkowski <mbork <at> mbork.pl> writes:

>> line 3651 of emacs-24.5/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el:
>>
>>    ;; Do not recheck accepted word on this line.

I think there's two meanings of "accepted" in that function -- one is
hitting SPC, and the other is when the word is already in the dictionary.

>> This suggests that there might be a reason for that behavior. If this is
>> true, what is it?
>
> I've just seen this report.  I'm also very curious about that reason.

It seems nonsensical to me -- just because you accept the word once on a
line, it might not be acceptable in the next instance.  So I've changed
this in Emacs 28.

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