Subject: Re: bug#52179: Highlighting a word in `ispell' using `enchant'

From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2022 08:39:49 +0100

On Wed, 25 May 2022 at 03:28, Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > From: Reuben Thomas <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 22:34:14 +0100
> > Cc: Tor Kringeland <[email-masked]>, [email-masked]
> >
> > Since ispell is the only spellchecker Emacs supports that can't cope
> with [[:alpha:]], it would seem more
> > sensible to have a default (nil-keyed) setting in
> ispell-dictionary-base-alist, and to overwrite the default with
> > [A-Za-z] only if the spellchecker is really ispell.
> >
> > This way, duplicate code can be removed and future spellcheckers will
> not need to rediscover this problem.
>
> That might be okay, but how does it help us get the Enchant support in
> ispell.el DTRT?  We'd still need to detect when Ispell is used as the
> back-end speller, no?
>

Versions of Enchant compatible with Emacs do not support Ispell as the
back-end speller (I removed this support in version 2 of Enchant).

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