Re: flyspell
Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu writes:
You want painful? Have that set, and go into gnus to read netnews,
and
open the list of all newsgroups. *ouch*. Even on a 700-mz Dell, hitting
down-arrow could take a minute (literally) to go down.
Set flyspell-global-modes to something that doesn't include Gnus.
Or simply add flyspell-mode to e.g. text-mode-hook.
There are a lot of modes in which flyspell is really not appropriate.