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Subject: Re: spell checker as word does
From: Knut Forkalsrud <knut@forkalsrud.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:12:36 GMT

Colin Walters <walters+n@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:

> Does adding
> 
> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
> 
> to your ~/.emacs file help?

I suggested the same to another user not long ago, and got the
following kind correction from Stefan Monnier:

>>>>>> "Knut" == Knut Forkalsrud <knut@forkalsrud.org> writes:
>> (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'flyspell-mode)
>
> Actually, calling flyspell-mode like that just toggles the mode,
> so it might in some rare circumstances end up turning it off
> rather than on.  Try
> 
>         (add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (flyspell-mode 1)))
> 
> 
> -- Stefan
> 
> PS: I still have hope to convince Emacs developers that this
>     toggling behavior is a misfeature and should be changed.


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