bug#20741: 24.4; flyspell doesn't work with abbreviations ending in a period

[Reuben Thomas]

On 6 June 2015 at 07:49, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2015 22:42:39 +0100
> From: Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>
> Cc: 20741@debbugs.gnu.org
>
>     > flyspell marks as incorrect “etc.”, “i.e.”, “e.g.” &c.
>
>     I can reproduce part of this with en_GB, but not with en_US. So I
>     think it's an issue with the dictionary, not with flyspell or ispell.
>
> The en_US dictionary contains "etc", which is incorrect.

Not that I'm maintaining those dictionaries, but why is it incorrect,
in your opinion?  It clearly produces the desirable effect, doesn't it?

​No, it produces the undesirable effect of treating "etc" as a correct spelling.​

Does this mean that your problem is solved, and we can close this bug?
Or does something still need to be fixed in Emacs?

​Sorry, I must have been unclear. I still have the original problem: without the workaround of adding incorrect spellings to my personal wordlist, "i.e." and "e.g." are marked as wrong in en_GB. I just double checked this with the following recipe:

1. Rename my ~/.hunspell_en_GB.

2. Start "emacs -Q"

3. M-x flyspell-mode RET

4. M-x customize-variable RET ispell-program-name RET; set to "/usr/bin/hunspell" (doing this after step 3 because the variable is not available for customization before loading ispell)

5. Type "etc. i.e. e.g."

All of the above is now red-underwiggled.

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