From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Grammar checking Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:59:55 +0000 Message-ID: <58158ae4988ddd989b9a@heytings.org> References: <87355lqs4v.fsf@gmail.com> <838rfd2mmf.fsf@gnu.org> <58158ae4984ea8345733@heytings.org> <83zg7t12i6.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19335"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: relekarpayas@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, m.eliachevitch@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 31 16:00:14 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1piFIb-0004q1-HZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:00:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piFIP-0001eY-L6; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 10:00:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piFIN-0001dg-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:59:59 -0400 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1piFIM-0007Nr-5x; Fri, 31 Mar 2023 09:59:59 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1680271195; bh=HaKXN2xEIJcqbluKuw2Uw4boJlj+Mn+4yBTADNBX1ds=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=KPU2UDH2op8k7BjkJS33LGqVwr3GRj3RhE/JFLA1pVb2zDpBez0t2v1L9F1KNP1gG XCWz74QMi8iHKFQuGRPa4VK7DbXfp2MeyabtQl1euJP7Dv0n3rTL4+JkXuYj8Jdk4h vgg9PDv12osxFkk/Rk7Hih/EzJKDrKdPXH0j4+7oHe9EvWUnws2xxLhzreYDnaZEEb /XfoKQGLJgOes1T4pIM9/PsdkiXbEwSZ9l81aREC/zVp4i+lUNCv+20/AoBpRIlXNy fg6k+13wxvBwYHUefgyz96ZzBV0FCyvsR6F3kRzmxUtz2vbIO6EiYXi0MiShkIvZIa kGdB6Gpv37T1g== In-Reply-To: <83zg7t12i6.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:304924 Archived-At: >> It's clearly not as accurate as non-free grammar checkers, but it does >> a reasonable job. I don't know if that's enough to be proud of it. >> To give you a feeling of what it does, I attach the 18 potential >> grammar errors it detects in CONTRIBUTE. > > About 25% success rate. But CONTRIBUTE sees a lot of review, so it > isn't surprising that most of the reports are false positives. It is > better to try some document out there written by a non-native English > speaker, like README.md of some package. > Do you have one such file handy? I did not find one among those in ELPA.