GNU bug report logs - #37141
ispell-skip-html is poorly documented, e.g. for XML

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>

Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

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From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 37141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#37141: 27.0.50; spelling doesn't work in XML comments
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 15:50:04 +0200

On 2019-08-22 16:34:09 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> tags 37141 notabug
> thanks

I disagree. That would be at least a documentation bug.

> > $ cat sp-test.xml
> > <!-- zzz -->
> > $ emacs -Q sp-test.xml
> > 
> > which loads the file in nXML mode. If I select "zzz" and do an
> > ispell-region, a mistake is detected. But if I select the whole
> > line and do an ispell-region, the mistake isn't detected.
> 
> That's a feature, see ispell-skip-html.

This is not documented in the Emacs manual.

BTW, XML is not HTML.

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