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Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> writes:

> Krzsztof Krzysztof <shuvarek@wytnij-to-gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 23.04.2025 06:22, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>  From David McKenzie’s blog
>> [...]
>>>      Stallman's efforts we'd probably all be using vi or worse today.
>>
>> At least two things still keep me using vim:
>> 1. easy spellcheck with two or more languages just by ":set spelllang=pl,en"
>> 2. Usint it through web, I do not have problem with `C-n`, `C-p`.
>
> As always it'd be interesting to know how that works. Does vim
> auto-recognize the language and use the appropriate checker or?
>
> Personally, I use wcheck-mode in Emacs for multi-language spell
> checking.  As I recall it takes some setup but I have a ready made
> config from the dev, from years ago. I still have to select checking
> language manually. Not really a thing any more, it was useful where
> there were active Finnish Usenet groups and but don't write much in my
> native Finnish, in Emacs at least.

Ah, well, that's obviously where you are going wrong - not writing
everything in Emacs ;-)

I do do almost all my writing in Emacs.  In particular, I use Gnus for
all my emails, which are in English, German or both, and
ispell-hunspell-add-multi-dic seems work out what is what automatically.

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  Re: Origin Of Emacs Krzsztof Krzysztof <shuvarek@wytnij-to-gmail.com> - 2025-10-29 01:10 +0100
    Re: Origin Of Emacs "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2025-10-29 07:56 +0100
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        Re: Multi-lang spellchecking; Tramp performance; multiplexing Daniel Cerqueira <dan.list@lispclub.com> - 2025-10-29 15:26 +0000
        Re: Multi-lang spellchecking; Tramp performance; multiplexing Water Fountain <water@foun.tn> - 2025-10-30 11:29 +0100
          Re: Multi-lang spellchecking; Tramp performance; multiplexing Mekeor Melire <mekeor@posteo.de> - 2025-10-30 13:51 +0100
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            Re: Multi-lang spellchecking; Tramp performance; multiplexing Water Fountain <water@foun.tn> - 2025-10-30 23:01 +0100
    Re: Origin Of Emacs Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi> - 2025-10-30 15:07 +0200
      Re: Origin Of Emacs "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> - 2025-10-30 14:49 +0100
      Re: Origin Of Emacs Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-10-31 12:05 +0000

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