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Re: flyspell overlays removed in comments: does this make sense?


From: Ihor Radchenko
Subject: Re: flyspell overlays removed in comments: does this make sense?
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2021 22:10:04 +0800

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> for some time (years, really), I've suffered with flyspell overlays
> disappearing in comments in org documents.  It never occurred to me that
> this was due to org itself so I just put up with and chalked it up to
> one of those Emacs mysteries.  Today, for unrelated reasons [1], I ended
> up looking at the code, specifically

Not only comments. Same for #+captions (which made me miss spelling
errors in my figure captions).

> org-fontify-meta-lines-and-blocks-1
>
> and see that org explicitly removes flyspell overlays in comments.
>
> Before I look into maybe adding a user option for the flyspell issue,
> can somebody explain the rationale for this?  My comments tend to be
> natural languages so flyspell is most definitely useful.  Okay, spelling
> errors in comments may matter less in terms of dissemination but
> still...

Looking at git log, the intention was avoiding flyspell highlights in
cases like #+IKNOWTHISISNOTREALWORD: keyword value. Removing the
highlights from user text is a side effect.

I consider this a bug and mark your report as such.

Confirmed

Best,
Ihor



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