flyspell mode not buffer local?

[Tim Connors]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Aidan Kehoe wrote:

> 
>  Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Tim Connors: 
> 
>  > If I invoke either flyspell-mode or flyspell-mode-on, then the local 
>  > buffer gets checked, but so does everything else (polluting all my shell 
>  > scripts with bogus font-locking).  And it even font locks spelling in the 
>  > status line -- If I try to type  M-x flyspell-foo, it objects to my 
>  > spelling of flyspell :)
>  > 
>  > It seems from everyone's .emacs file, this shouldn't happen - it should be 
>  > buffer local.  Is there bug with the xemacs implementation, and not the 
>  > emacs implementation?
> 
> I don't see this. Do you see it in an XEmacs started with -vanilla? Can it
> be that you have a line (setq flyspell-mode t) in your ~/.xemacs/init.el ,
> and this overrides the buffer default nil value set in flyspell.el? 

I don't either, on Centos 4, with their xemacs.  I do with debian unstable 
though, and their packages xemacs, and I shall investigate more when I've 
got that box in front of me.

-- 
Tim Connors