From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alexander Shukaev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Speck (Spell checker for Emacs) Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:26:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <5536279E.9080204@gmx.at> <83zj614ihj.fsf@gnu.org> 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 1429630036 16819 80.91.229.3 (21 Apr 2015 15:27:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:27:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 21 17:27:02 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 1Yka4i-0007ch-5L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:27:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59125 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yka4h-0008BW-Ix for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51509) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yka4W-0008B0-Ry for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:26:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yka4S-0007uW-FK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-la0-x22d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4010:c03::22d]:36375) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yka4P-0007qJ-8Y; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:26:41 -0400 Original-Received: by lagv1 with SMTP id v1so153960666lag.3; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:26:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=pjUG7fQvwxFtoh8NV5Ie7ElrHZvc2SHgQoVLkM3A9sk=; b=pKuTfIZKdXouDa9dYS39bT2kY8WneKZEDlteL0Jh1HFkQqI5/turs/Jl6XNccLHQOa KVCVYn/EIAQer0AwRaPvUlD1rygZrT+IIswq7nGvUT6g5rvgF+RW/OMV9wu9LX3/5vMx 1hXuYU00L3R3wuWQdRkD+bsj8DXL4Bsu0sUghFSynD1rFxJ7TPnwpPmo6woW2aewywGG p46uU8JFLE3E2cR3e4ihir10Of0epEjrrmBmOH2akkcxyhC/vnc6PRTbxJmwBsAdBheV w8ES2HHjcFCy+bPcVjfmkFIHqOHksK942zvQiYueBBPC6mFSfy5AKxF+EkTT8XkSRv2/ 3X9w== X-Received: by 10.112.199.133 with SMTP id jk5mr21177270lbc.32.1429630000441; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:26:40 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.112.36.103 with HTTP; Tue, 21 Apr 2015 08:26:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83zj614ihj.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:4010:c03::22d X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 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:103911 Archived-At: > > > =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, 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. > =E2=80=8BThanks for these hints, Eli. I'll definitely give it one more sho= t.=E2=80=8B