bug#2517: 23.0.90; How to enable flyspell mode always isn't documented

Reiner Steib <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

the manual doesn't mention how to enable flyspell mode in all text
modes (index search for flyspell).

,----[ M-x customize-variable RET text-mode-hook RET ]
| text-mode-hook: Hide Value
| [X] turn-on-flyspell
|     Unconditionally turn on Flyspell mode.
`----

How about the following patch?  Okay to install?

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--- emacs/fixit.texi	27 Jan 2009 21:00:14 -0000	1.8
+++ emacs/fixit.texi	28 Feb 2009 18:50:17 -0000
@@ -396,6 +396,10 @@
 word.  This does not interfere with your editing, but when you see the
 highlighted word, you can move to it and fix it.  Type @kbd{M-x
 flyspell-mode} to enable or disable this mode in the current buffer.
+@findex turn-on-flyspell
+To enable @code{flyspell-mode} in all text mode buffers, add
+@code{turn-on-flyspell} to @code{text-mode-hook}.
+
 
   When Flyspell mode highlights a word as misspelled, you can click on
 it with @kbd{Mouse-2} to display a menu of possible corrections and
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Bye, Reiner.
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