Emanuel Berg <[email protected]> writes: > Pietro <[email protected]> writes: > >> I normally use the ispell-buffer command before >> sending an email or article to check what I have >> written, anyway sometimes I just forgot it. >> >> Is there a way to configure Gnus to start the spell >> check before sending the message ? I was thinking of >> an "hook" which can be configured to call a function >> - as ispell-buffer - triggered by the send command. > > There are many options to achieve what you want. > As for the hooks, yes: > > message-send-hook ; early > > message-send-mail-hook ; late > message-send-news-hook > > But that might not be the best move. Spelling can be > confusing with a lot of options and strange words will > pop up that makes your mind wander and you bring up > Emacs-w3m to Google it and you... oh, the message! > > Or the opposite, when you are in a rush and you have > written a three liner and it yams every time you send > it, the thrice-accursed spellchecker starting > all over! > > Instead, I'd do it like this: > > Write one defun "message-send-no-check" that *always* > sends. It could be `C-u C-c C-c' or whatever. > > Then write another defun > "message-send-ask-if-not-spelled" (`C-c C-c') which > checks a variable "is-spelled". This variable is > (re)set to nil when you create a new message (put it > in `message-setup-hook', likely). When you spell, the > variable is set to t. > > If is-spelled is nil, message-send-ask-if-not-spelled > simply says "Hey, it is not spelled. Use `C-u C-c C-c' > to send anyway." If it is t, the message is sent > normally by means of `message-send-and-exit'. > > This perhaps sounds complicated but it is super simple > - just setting, testing, and branching, like all > programming. Nothing new under the Sun Microsystems. > > Here is what I have for spelling: > > http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/spell-new.el > > Note especially the `ispell-message' stuff! Which has > a bug by the way if you do `C-g' while spelling... But > you only get a wierd message (in the echo area, not > a message-message). > > And for the message mode: > > http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/conf/emacs-init/gnus/message-my.el > > Good luck! Ask more if need be! Thanks for all your answers guys.
Well my first language isn't English and I do like the idea of focusing on what I am writing and only at a second time run the spell checker to make sure everything is correct, I did not know of fly spell but I would prefer not to use it. I am pretty sure there is not an unique answer to this matter and everybody has his own preferences, this is why a fully customizable tools like Gnus comes in handy. The more I use it the more I like it. I prefer to run the spell checker at a separate stage since it takes a bit of concentration to me when I am writing in English I couldn't cope with external interactions/distractions of any sort very well, however this is a *pretty personal* view. I went through the links you pointed me in and they gave me the spark to more patiently read the Gnus manual and there I found these these few lines : Page 138, right at the top: (add-hook 'message-send-hook #'ispell-message) Even though I was excited at the idea of writing my own function everything was already there and I haven't been the first to think about it :-) Now that I got this working my following question is : would it be possible to auto-detect the language the spell checker should check ? Alternatively I am thinking of writing a function which asks the user for the language the ispell function should check for, it does not need to accept all the languages and for instance I would be more than happy to have something like that : Mini-buffer says: [Which language ?[e : English, i: Italian] In this manner I do not need to remember all the dictionary names but I could set up a simple mapping inside my functions for the ones I more often using. For example typing 'e' would cause: (ispell-change-dictionary 'english) (ispell-message) Such function would be inserted among the 'message-send-hook functions' list. Am I talking completely non-sense ? _______________________________________________ info-gnus-english mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnus-english
