ram-ashwin@YALE.ARPA.UUCP (10/27/87)
I've added a variable to the ispell.el package to control whether you want to
look for misspelled words embedded in other words. In troff, for example,
words could be "hidden" (e.g., in "\fIfoo\fB", "foo" isn't a separate word).
However, if you don't use troff/nroff, the original control structure of
ispell is a little painful because:
(a) it often picks up embedded words incorrectly (e.g., if "foo" is
misspelled, it picks up nearby words like "food" too), and
(b) your prefobnicator can't delete too many words (which in turn means
that you have to "ispell -a" a lot of words, which is pretty slow). Now you
can pre-filter the buffer through, say, ispell -l, which improves the speed
of the package considerably.
In short, if you ispell non-troff/nroff texts, you probably want the changes.
E-mail me if this is the case and I'll send it out to you.
[BTW, is anyone keeping track of the "official" latest version of ISPELL?
Last time I posted a note I got several interested people, which means that
enough people out there are using it. Should I send it to GNU to be included
in the distribution? Since it's nicer than spell (does spelling correction
in addition to misspelling detection; does word completion from a dictionary;
etc.) ispell should probably be part of GNU.]
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