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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???
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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>
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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.
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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.
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