From 260588af1e2c86a2fa566ad5470744af1b28c876 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@telfort.nl>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2019 14:57:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] speller: be more concise and to the point when something goes
 wrong

---
 src/text.c | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/text.c b/src/text.c
index 332d6594..520ca639 100644
--- a/src/text.c
+++ b/src/text.c
@@ -2665,12 +2665,11 @@ void do_spell(void)
 	shift_held = TRUE;
 
 	if (result_msg != NULL) {
+		/* Avoid giving a failure reason of "Success". */
 		if (errno == 0)
-			/* Don't display an error message of "Success". */
-			statusline(ALERT, _("Spell checking failed: %s"), result_msg);
+			statusline(ALERT, result_msg);
 		else
-			statusline(ALERT, _("Spell checking failed: %s: %s"), result_msg,
-												strerror(errno));
+			statusline(ALERT, _("%s: %s"), result_msg, strerror(errno));
 	} else
 		statusbar(_("Finished checking spelling"));
 }