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changeset 46911:ed736029584b
Clarify ispell use of multiple dictionaries.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:29:19 +0000 |
| parents | 53d5a958853a |
| children | 487968d71def |
| files | man/fixit.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/man/fixit.texi Thu Aug 15 20:28:43 2002 +0000 +++ b/man/fixit.texi Thu Aug 15 20:29:19 2002 +0000 @@ -319,14 +319,18 @@ process uses no time except when you do spelling correction. @vindex ispell-dictionary - Ispell uses two dictionaries: the standard dictionary and your private -dictionary. The variable @code{ispell-dictionary} specifies the file -name of the standard dictionary to use. A value of @code{nil} says to -use the default dictionary. The command @kbd{M-x -ispell-change-dictionary} sets this variable and then restarts the -Ispell subprocess, so that it will use a different dictionary. + Ispell uses two dictionaries together for spell checking: the +standard dictionary and your private dictionary. The variable +@code{ispell-dictionary} specifies the file name to use for the +standard dictionary; a value of @code{nil} selects the default +dictionary. The command @kbd{M-x ispell-change-dictionary} sets this +variable and then restarts the Ispell subprocess, so that it will use +a different standard dictionary. @vindex ispell-complete-word-dict - The dictionary used by @code{ispell-complete-word} can be -customized separately by setting the value of the variable -@code{ispell-complete-word-dict}. + Ispell uses a separate dictionary for word completion. The variable +@code{ispell-complete-word-dict} specifies the file name of this +dictionary. The completion dictionary must be different because it +cannot use employ root and affix information. For some languages +there is a spell checking dictionary but no word completion +dictionary.