From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speck (Spell checker for Emacs) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:19:04 +0300 Message-ID: <83zj614ihj.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5536279E.9080204@gmx.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1429629578 8569 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2015 15:19:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:19:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 21 17:19:31 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YkZxS-0002N9-Ep for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:19:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkZxR-0004xF-A8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:19:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49337) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkZxC-0004xA-2f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:19:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkZx7-0005LJ-W1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:19:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:42120) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YkZx7-0005LA-NY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:19:09 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NN500100X2KX100@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:19:08 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NN50018UX7VU780@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:19:08 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103910 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:18:03 +0200 > From: Alexander Shukaev > Cc: help-gnu-emacs >=20 > =E2=80=8BWhat I wonder is why Speck is not so popular, it seems not= so many people > use it or even know about it. I can tell you my reasons: because it's not bundled, and as result suffers from being not quite up-to-date with the latest developments in the modern spellers (see my previous message). > What do others use for spell checking? Flyspell? Yes. > Personally, I have to admit that my experiences with Flyspell > are terrible as it is extremely slow and continuously stutters > Emacs. Try customizing flyspell-duplicate-distance to a small value, perhaps even to zero. I have found this minor and easy-to-give-up-on feature to be one major reason for slowdown. > Even `flyspell-lazy' does not help. On the other hand, Speck seems > to be working truly (or almost truly) asynchronously and therefore = I > experience no stutters or slowdowns. But what Speck does has its downsides as well: if you are a fast typist, you can be quite a few words after the mis-spelled one, befor= e the timer fires and the mistake is marked as such. By contrast, Flyspell shows the mistake immediately after the word is finished, so you can easily correct/retype it. TANSTAAFL. > By the way, do you have any recipe to teach Speck to spell check on= ly text > in TeX files (i.e. skip commands)? Another thing that "just works" with ispell.el and Flyspell.