; * lisp/textmodes/ispell.el (ispell-message): Add commentary.

(cherry picked from commit f9832e80b89d45c283c80e89471a8687df145821)

diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
index 17af1f1d926dc25116f91547e58ff1474bbdd636..f523df9881e7468494746cb5632eb6fe596ff16c 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
+++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el
@@ -4059,6 +4059,10 @@ You can bind this to the key C-c i in GNUS or mail by adding to
            (if (re-search-forward "^Subject: *" end-of-headers t)
                (progn
                  (goto-char (match-end 0))
+                  ;; Don't spell-check Subject if it comes from a
+                  ;; received message: "Re:" indicates this is a reply
+                  ;; to someone else's message, "[...]" indicates this
+                  ;; is a subject of a forwarded message.
                  (if (and (not (looking-at ".*\\<Re\\>"))
                           (not (looking-at "\\[")))
                      (progn