From fbbd6e46c08239a3302e20c7637339adf7c18be5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 04:29:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (ispell-dictionary-alist): Doc fix. --- lisp/textmodes/ispell.el | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el index 5f470faa72a..20b830822ea 100644 --- a/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el +++ b/lisp/textmodes/ispell.el @@ -556,15 +556,19 @@ word. NOT-CASECHARS is the opposite regexp of CASECHARS. -OTHERCHARS is a regular expression of other characters that are valid -in word constructs. Otherchars cannot be adjacent to each other in a -word, nor can they begin or end a word. This implies we can't check -\"Stevens'\" as a correct possessive and other correct formations. - +OTHERCHARS are characters in the NOT-CASECHARS set but which can be used to +construct words in some special way. If OTHERCHARS characters follow and +precede characters from CASECHARS, they are parsed as part of a word, +otherwise they become word-breaks. As an example in English, assume the +set ['] (as a regular expression) for OTHERCHARS. Then \"they're\" and +\"Steven's\" are parsed as single words including the \"'\" character, but +\"Stevens'\" does not include the quote character as part of the word. +If you want OTHERCHARS to be empty, use nil. Hint: regexp syntax requires the hyphen to be declared first here. -MANY-OTHERCHARS-P is non-nil if many otherchars are to be allowed in a -word instead of only one. +MANY-OTHERCHARS-P is non-nil when multiple OTHERCHARS are allowed in a word. +Otherwise only a single OTHERCHARS character is allowed to be part of any +single word. ISPELL-ARGS is a list of additional arguments passed to the ispell subprocess. -- 2.39.2