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List:       pine-info
Subject:    Re: Use ispell as standard speller, with modified commands?
From:       Mike Ramey <mramey () u ! washington ! edu>
Date:       1994-01-25 13:37:37
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On Mon, 24 Jan 1994, Mike Grupenhoff wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jan 1994, Mike Ramey wrote:
> > P.S.:  In spell-checking this message (using 'spell' via ^T key), 
> > I discovered the following anomaly:
> >  - the following 1 line produces 3 spelling errors:
> > and 'diskette', 'telnet', 'email'(!), etc. 
> >  - the following 3 lines produce -no- spelling errors:
> > 'diskette', 
> > 'telnet', 
> > 'email'(!), etc. 
> 
> I think this is because spell only prints out each misspelling once, ...

NO.  If the message contains only the list, no spelling errors are found;
if the message contains only the one-line phrase, 3 errors are found. -mr

> > BUT WAIT ... If you spell check this message just as it is before you, 
> > the three errors (email, diskette, telnet) will be reported in the list
> > at the top of the message, BUT ... if you remove this P.S. and run the
> > spell-check again, NO ERRORS will be reported!  
> 
> I have no proof, but I'm guessing that pine remembers which words you
> didn't correct in previous spell checks, and won't keep harrassing you
> about them on subsequent checks.  

NO.  Pine spell (^T) will report the same errors every time.  -mr

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