Re: Grammar checking

[Nasser Alkmim <nasser.alkmim@gmail.com>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 07:10:11 +0000
>> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
>> cc: rms@gnu.org, m.eliachevitch@posteo.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> 
>> > As an aside, a technology I would like to see in Emacs is grammar 
>> > checking.  Last I looked, there are no free grammar-checking libraries 
>> > or services out there, even just for the English language.  But if 
>> > that's no longer true, then adding such capabilities to Emacs will be 
>> > very welcome, I think, since word-based spell-checking is clearly not 
>> > enough these days.
>> 
>> I think that's no longer true, LanguageTool is available (and has been for 
>> ~20 years): https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool .  But it's 
>> written in Java...
>
> Thanks.  Maybe someone will figure out how to integrate this with
> Emacs.
>
>

I tried a couple of grammar checkers in Emacs, integrated via Flymake and Eglot.
The one that works best for me is this Grammarly language server [1].
Best in terms of diagnostics.
Some users may find it too intrusive, so it may be a personal preference thing.
However, it is not usable for larger buffers because it is too slow.
Maybe some narrowing functionality can help.
Also, there may be other implications regarding using Grammarly.
The LanguageTool language server is available as well, but It is not as effective as Grammarly to catch mistakes and offer suggestions.

[0] https://github.com/emacs-languagetool/flymake-languagetool
[1] https://github.com/emacs-grammarly/eglot-grammarly

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