flyspell mode not buffer local?

[Tim Connors]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Tim Connors writes:
> 
>  > Gah.  The dictionaries-common package, depended on by the likes of 
>  > openoffice, has felt fit to include a 2007 version of flyspell.el from 
>  > emacs in their package, and symlink it into the xemacs tree.
> 
> I'm sorry this has caught you, and I wish there were a better
> solution.  Unfortunately, Debian's policies concerning this kind of
> stuff are a compromise, and in this kind of case they don't work very
> well with XEmacs.

I understand why they backport things, but do you know why they decide to 
link in the flyspell.el into both the emacs and xemacs trees, when both 
the emacs (emacs22-el and emacs22-common) and xemacs (xemacs21-basesupport 
and xemacs21-basesupport-el) packages have their own versions?

> I'll try to remember to put "sync flyspell" on the TODO list.  Doesn't
> mean it will get done, but you could contribute (given your evaluation
> that the XEmacs packaged version works "perfectly" I don't suppose
> there's much benefit to you, so don't feel oliged :-), and somebody
> will do it eventually.

I am a little confused.  On a Centos 4 machine where I have not been able 
to break flyspell at all, the flyspell.el is dating from 2002.

The same file, modulo a tiny patch involving

-      (if (fboundp 'about-xemacs)
+      (if (featurep 'xemacs)
          (sit-for flyspell-delay nil)
        (sit-for flyspell-delay 0 nil)))

is in debian's xemacs21-basesupport package.  The 2007 version in 
dictionaries-common is obviously quite a large patch.  The 2007 version is 
the one that acts global instead of as buffer local.

However, lastnight I found that the 2002 version on debian, had a fault 
with button-2 - this bug, by the looks of things:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/comp.emacs.xemacs/browse_thread/thread/15c106b449ef6e61/695d087c22202a47
The reporter obviously never solved that bug, instead getting a 
self-consistent version of the sumo instead of debian's version.  Despite 
being basically the same file in Centos4, the button-2 fault does not 
appear in it.

So I installed flyspell.el (v 1.7n) from 
http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Manuel.Serrano/flyspell/flyspell.html 
and it seems to be working perfectly on debian, it having overridden the 
version in xemacs21-basesupport, and of course the one in 
dictionaries-common.  That's where I am now -- using upstream's 1.7n 
version on debian, and am not going to touch the Centos4 machine until it 
breaks:)

-- 
Tim Connors