GNU bug report logs - #64075
28.2; ispell broken on uncolored terminals

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Al Petrofsky <al <at> petrofsky.org>

Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 23:14:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.2

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Al Petrofsky <al <at> petrofsky.org>
Cc: 64075 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64075: 28.2; ispell broken on uncolored terminals
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2023 23:25:10 +0000

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> 
> emacs-28.2 -Q -nw --color=no
> s t o n k s M-$ 1
>
> At this point, I expect to see the word "stonks" replaced with "stocks", 
> but it is instead replaced with "stockstonks".
> 
> The problem seems to be in ispell-highlight-spelling-error-generic, a 
> 20th-century kludge from before face support for ttys was added in 
> emacs-21 in 2001.  It's been unnecessary since then, and it looks like 
> it's been breaking ispell on colorless ttys since at least emacs-23.
>

This recipe can be reproduced with Emacs 25, 26, 27 and 28... but not with 
Emacs 29, in which "stonks" is indeed replaced with "stocks".
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