From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Speck (Spell checker for Emacs)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:26:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKu-7WzkdQKvWi_SvR6g0xDj=BNr47YrQbr54PXxBQmCxDw2YA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83zj614ihj.fsf@gnu.org>
>
> > What 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, before
> 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 only
> text
> > in TeX files (i.e. skip commands)?
>
> Another thing that "just works" with ispell.el and Flyspell.
>
Thanks for these hints, Eli. I'll definitely give it one more shot.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-21 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-21 10:34 Speck (Spell checker for Emacs) martin rudalics
2015-04-21 12:18 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-21 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-21 15:26 ` Alexander Shukaev [this message]
2015-04-22 9:33 ` martin rudalics
2015-04-22 10:50 ` Alexander Shukaev
[not found] ` <mailman.1265.1429618691.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-04-21 12:57 ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-04-21 15:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-04-17 22:55 Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-18 11:10 ` tomas
2015-04-18 12:24 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-18 13:15 ` tomas
2015-04-18 13:56 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-18 14:13 ` tomas
2015-04-18 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 16:16 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-18 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 16:36 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-18 16:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 17:20 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-18 17:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-04-18 19:44 ` Alexander Shukaev
2015-04-18 20:22 ` Alexander Shukaev
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