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[RFC] Asynchronous, jit-lock-based Flyspell

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 61814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#61814: [RFC] Asynchronous, jit-lock-based Flyspell
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 17:45:20 +0200

> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 61814 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 16:36:58 +0100
> 
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2023 at 17:11, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> From: Augusto Stoffel <arstoffel <at> gmail.com>
> >> Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2023 15:56:00 +0100
> >> 
> >> Also, one obvious glitch is that one gets JIT™ corrections for the word
> >> being currently typed.  Before going on an writing some ugly logic to
> >> avoid that, and since one can influence an overlay appearance when the
> >> mouse pointer hovers it, I was wondering if there's something analogous
> >> for the cursor.
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand the problem: just don't spell-check the word
> > at point and don't put any overlays there, and that's all.  Right?
> 
> Writing just any old code that achieves the result is easy.  Writing the
> simplest and most elegant version sometimes requires much more work.  I
> asked a specific question about overlays because knowing the answer
> would help me in the latter endeavor.

I'm sorry I annoyed you by trying to be helpful.  I will shut up now.

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