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ispell-skip-html is poorly documented, e.g. for XML

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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 17:12:45 +0200

On 2019-08-22 17:53:25 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 16:29:42 +0200
> > From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
> > Cc: 37141 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> > 
> > > We don't document every obscure feature in the manual, that would make
> > > it too large.  Some user options are left out.  I don't see why this
> > > one is important enough to add it, sorry.
> > 
> > That's not an obscure feature.
> 
> We will have to disagree on that, I think.

Well, now I know what it does excatly (my testing was incomplete),
I agree that's an obscure feature. But you misread my original
bug report, which was *only* about XML comments (obviously not
all markup): "spelling doesn't work in XML comments"

> > There's no reason to exclude XML comments by default.
> 
> Maybe we have a missing feature, then.

Yes, apparently a missing feature (unless there's some undocumented
variable with an obscure name and documentation...).

> > A user who does not know this variable and what it does will never
> > find it.
> 
> I didn't know about it, and yet found it in about 10 sec.

I searched only about "XML". The user is not expected to spend
hours trying to search every variant (HTML, SGML, SVG, MathML,
etc.).

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