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Re: Grammar checking


From: Gregory Heytings
Subject: Re: Grammar checking
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:09:24 +0000

One of the main annoyances is that LanguageTool does not appear to be widely packaged[2].
Why would it be necessary to package it?
If a user has to jump through hoops to download, install, and configure 
it, could we honestly claim that the functionality was part of Emacs?
A functionality of Emacs would depend on an externally installed tool, 
that's all.  Just like M-x ispell depends on an externally installed tool. 
And a user does not have to "jump through hoops to download, install, and 
configure it", it's a single (but large: 220 MB) zip file to download and 
unzip somewhere.  There is also an optional per-language ngram data set, 
which is much bigger (8.5 GB for English) but not available for all 
languages that LanguageTool supports.



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