Re: Flyspell difficult to configure, documentation not honest

[Brett Gilio]

I completely second everything you said, Emanuel. Spell checking on the 
fly is not only extremely prone to false-errors, but it also poses a lot 
of issues with emacs performance and even some false errors with 
packages like helm (in my experience).

/If/ you need spell-checking, I second ispell.

Brett Gilio
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On 07/12/2018 12:30 PM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> R. Diez wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to use Flyspell, and
> > I found it difficult to configure.
>
> Spell check on the fly isn't a good idea.
> Too many "errors" which aren't errors but
> acronyms, proper nouns, lingo, and just
> ordinary everyday word which for some reason
> aren't in the dictionary.
>
> And, again, way too many for any sane person to
> ever complete the dictionary with a local one.
> Is my experience, at least.
>
> And the consequence of this (too many false
> errors) is a disruptive rhythm to your thinking
> and typing process.
>
> Ispell is better. Choose the biggest dictionary
> you can find (e.g., the "iamerican-insane" in the
> Debian software repos).
>
> Here is some configurations and helpers on
> ispell:
>
>      http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/spell-new.el