Re: Grammar checking in Emacs

[Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>]

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On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> 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.

I recently enhanced flycheck-languagetool so that it’s able to start its own server if so configured, so I’m sure something similar could be done with the various other LanguageTool modes.

> 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.

Fedora have pretty much given up on packaging Java applications now, I think.

> AFAICT the most popular way to install it is as a "snap" package, which
> I consider to be a euphemism for a blob :-(

You can unzip prebuilt JARs from https://languagetool.org/download/LanguageTool-stable.zip, which seems simpler but similarly blobby.

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Peter Oliver