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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Emacs Org mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: flyspell overlays removed in comments: does this make sense?
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:10:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878rwcu3wj.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wnjzdxkp.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> for some time (years, really), I've suffered with flyspell overlays
> disappearing in comments in org documents.  It never occurred to me that
> this was due to org itself so I just put up with and chalked it up to
> one of those Emacs mysteries.  Today, for unrelated reasons [1], I ended
> up looking at the code, specifically

Not only comments. Same for #+captions (which made me miss spelling
errors in my figure captions).

> org-fontify-meta-lines-and-blocks-1
>
> and see that org explicitly removes flyspell overlays in comments.
>
> Before I look into maybe adding a user option for the flyspell issue,
> can somebody explain the rationale for this?  My comments tend to be
> natural languages so flyspell is most definitely useful.  Okay, spelling
> errors in comments may matter less in terms of dissemination but
> still...

Looking at git log, the intention was avoiding flyspell highlights in
cases like #+IKNOWTHISISNOTREALWORD: keyword value. Removing the
highlights from user text is a side effect.

I consider this a bug and mark your report as such.

Confirmed

Best,
Ihor


  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-22 14:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-20 16:56 flyspell overlays removed in comments: does this make sense? Eric S Fraga
2021-12-22 14:10 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2021-12-28 15:01   ` Eric S Fraga

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