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From: Don Graffiti <graffitiNOSPAM@NOSPAMyahoo.com> Subject: Diction and Style for emacs Newsgroups: comp.emacs Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 18:14:17 GMT I don't know if you are aware of every little tool that comes with linux, but there are two of them that I cannot do without. "style" and "diction" runs on a text and checks for grammatical mistakes. Since I am writing my college application essays with emacs right now and make heavy use of these bad boys. Since i don't know how to do it with emacs, I have to save file go to shell and run them. Is there a simple command that would perform these operations and show the result in a new buffer??? === From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Subject: Re: Diction and Style for emacs Newsgroups: comp.emacs Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:02:25 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Don Graffiti <graffitiNOSPAM@NOSPAMyahoo.com> writes: > I don't know if you are aware of every little tool that comes with linux, > but there are two of them that I cannot do without. "style" and "diction" > runs on a text and checks for grammatical mistakes. Since I am writing my > college application essays with emacs right now and make heavy use of > these bad boys. Since i don't know how to do it with emacs, I have to save > file go to shell and run them. Is there a simple command that would > perform these operations and show the result in a new buffer??? I don't have those commands in my redhat 9 linux distro, but if they are shell commands you could run them like this: Using: M-| = shell-command-on-region To run one of them on a region: Mark region with <spc> then locate cursor at end, then: M-| <cmd><RET> To run one on a buffer: Use C-x h (to mark the entire buffer as region), then: M-| <cmd> <RET> === From: Vagn Johansen <gonz808@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: Diction and Style for emacs Newsgroups: comp.emacs Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 18:29:53 +0100 Organization: TDC Totalloesninger You can just use M-x compile RET diction file.txt RET and then M-x next-error RET a number of times. === From: Bud Rogers <budr@local.host> Subject: Re: Diction and Style for emacs Newsgroups: comp.emacs Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 14:55:35 -0600 Organization: marginal Haines Brown wrote: > Don, I found "diction", but not "style." Is the latter a deb package? The diction deb includes diction and style. HTH. ===