From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Grammar checking Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:11:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87355lqs4v.fsf@gmail.com> <838rfd2mmf.fsf@gnu.org> <87y1nd9j1q.fsf@localhost> <831ql52hhv.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="32402"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: yantar92@posteo.net, relekarpayas@gmail.com, gregory@heytings.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 Sun Apr 02 05:12:44 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 1pio95-0008De-3E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Apr 2023 05:12:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pio8I-00040M-Pa; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:11:55 -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 1pio8H-00040E-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:11:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pio8G-00069O-0z; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:11:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=NFEtW642GIaXydEZrwOy6Ip9sTv3EClLlkHacjiN0yk=; b=fC4/aRlTnXSV 3ASjpoXdN4EblYonAJxp/38mFSdRrjedMJ/5+6j1hcZA5frRdMoQqLqDTyop+DP+d2ULKWelnHgut uftZ7LemKawpfcymJtI1ymTaa26aLD87B916FiYYcjI3Tr48ns9ngT+C0E2GgJtqY825WJAf1ZcSp 2Cw90SDoXkm5k+ml7+WwuuOLOwmMPBhOk7wHxDvFJsktIspprbnAwu+7zLY6BXnE8qOcrJz+2dH0u mH60KgrKUGQXn9o8Ar+kyIWOwPoIO0jyRj7kIdeyhBVJ8wcZQIr+VRp+z/Y8Fua0NKAW/PciW+xPq OJhOQmtTZwg+/HQqTXK+fA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1pio86-0007kL-JY; Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:11:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <831ql52hhv.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Fri, 31 Mar 2023 16:11:08 +0300) 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:305027 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > I am using it in real-life scenarios for authoring. > > LanguageTool the most sophisticated Libre grammar checker around, AFAIK. > That's not enough, IMO. It should be good in absolute terms, not in > relative terms. At a minimum, it needs to be good enough to be useful, and thus worth the effort to merge and maintain it. (Otherwise, ignoring it would be a better option.) If it is better than that, that is a bonus. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)