From: Alexandre Garreau <galex-713@galex-713.eu>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: Grammar checking in Emacs
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:28:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <14139634.W7bVFoZECn@galex-713.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv5ysu41b3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Le lundi 15 novembre 2021, 03:46:19 CET Stefan Monnier a écrit :
> > The question is if those feelings about grammar checking still hold
> > true. I think one of the most popular free programs to do grammar
> > checking is LanguageTool (https://languagetool.org). I've quickly
> > tested it and it detected some non-trivial grammar mistakes, in
> > English
> > and Spanish at least. I didn't see false positives, which is a good
> > thing in this kind of tools. You can try the tool from its website
> > without installing it on your computer.
>
> IIUC (after looking at https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool)
> this is structured as a grammar-checking server (written in Java) that
> can run on a remote host and then client applications connect to it and
> presumably send their text to it a bit like they'd do with an LSP
> server, except the clients aren't expected to launch the server.
>
> Sadly it's not packaged for Debian (see
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=403619 suggests for
> the details). I can't see any info about using it on Fedora either.
> AFAICT the most popular way to install it is as a "snap" package, which
> I consider to be a euphemism for a blob :-(
a very heavy and hype blob
> > Is there interest in having this feature in Emacs? Perhaps as an ELPA
> > package, if the technology is not mature enough to have it in Core?
>
> I think it would be nice to provide a package for such grammar checking,
> yes. We should be careful not to encourage users to just connect to
> someone else's LaguageTool server, since that would be SaaSS, but other
> than that I see no reason not to have such a package in GNU ELPA. I
> don't expect many users to have such a server, so it's probably not
> widespread enough to justify having it in core, currently.
I wonder if the increasing tendency to write software extensions as
servers instead of libraries is calculated not only to promote SaaSS and
dependency, but even to promote a way of interfacing software that allows
circumventing copyleft…
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2021-11-15 0:12 ` Grammar checking in Emacs Daniel Martín
2021-11-15 2:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-15 8:16 ` tomas
2021-11-15 22:43 ` Peter Oliver
2021-11-15 23:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-16 18:01 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-11-16 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-17 3:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-19 21:51 ` Peter Oliver
2021-11-17 4:13 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-19 22:14 ` Peter Oliver
2021-11-16 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-16 11:32 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-11-16 14:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-16 22:49 ` Tim Cross
2021-11-16 23:29 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-16 6:28 ` Alexandre Garreau [this message]
2021-11-16 14:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-16 15:43 ` tomas
2021-11-18 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
2021-11-16 8:23 ` tomas
2021-11-15 19:45 ` Rudolf Adamkovič
2021-11-17 4:12 ` Richard Stallman
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