mhayashi1120/Emacs-langtool

being aware of the environment

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Jiehong commented

When typing something else than just text, let's say a LaTeX document, langtool is not aware of the LaTeX syntaxe and found a lot of small errors due to that. It would be great if it would deal with environments only and ignore LaTeX commands for example.

Actually, I don't really think it's possible since LanguageTool isn't aware of the syntax... so, it's more a question: is that possible without too much work or not really ?

mhayashi1120 commented

Very difficult for me ;-)

But, sometimes I am considering some ways of to solve this problem.
Programming comment, quoted string and etc..

Deleted user commented

For LaTeX, one could just use 'detex -c' on the current buffer before passing it on to langtool. This command strips away all latex markup. 'detex' is included in TeXLive package (texlive-extra-utils on Debian). An example to follow can be found here: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/emacs-lisp/archive/diction.el

howardabrams commented

This is also an issue with org-mode files, as initial indentation, code in BEGIN..END blocks and properties are all flagged.

jnavila commented

Same here with asciidoc and code blocks. Maybe ignoring some warnings if the incriminated hunk matches a regex would do the trick

krobbins commented

The LanguageTool API provides the AnnotatedTextBuilder class to check text with markup (https://languagetool.org/development/api/org/languagetool/markup/AnnotatedTextBuilder.html). I'm not sure how this would integrate with Emacs, though.

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nashamri commented

I would love to see this implemented 😄

galaunay commented

The problem with detex is that I couldn't make him replace non-text thing with spaces, losing the correct word positions...
But I made it work by copying the buffer, replacing the non-text parts with spaces using regex, launching langtool and this modified buffer and displaying the results on the original buffer.
Proper implementation should include a user-defined list of regexp to clean the file.
Does it look like a good solution for you ?

cjl8zf commented

I also wanted Langtool to ignore LaTeX so I implemented a small package that allows you to tell Langtool to ignore certain regions of text based on their font. I used this effectively to stop Langtool from complaining about stuff in LaTeX math-mode and also LaTeX comments. See here https://github.com/cjl8zf/langtool-ignore-fonts. Perhaps one day this could be added to the Emacs Langtool package.

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