From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/53403 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Josefsson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: [patch] (gnus)Splitting in IMAP Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:37:47 +0200 Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <4nel0xw0rm.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> <4nadbku79d.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1058006920 20983 80.91.224.249 (12 Jul 2003 10:48:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 10:48:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+M1947@lists.math.uh.edu Sat Jul 12 12:48:39 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19bHvi-0005SJ-00 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:48:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19bHv9-0006L9-00; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:48:03 -0500 Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com ([64.157.176.121]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 19bHuy-0006L1-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 05:47:52 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 15100 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2003 10:47:51 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 15095 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2003 10:47:51 -0000 Original-Received: from 178.230.13.217.in-addr.dgcsystems.net (HELO yxa.extundo.com) (217.13.230.178) by sclp3.sclp.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2003 10:47:51 -0000 Original-Received: from latte.josefsson.org (yxa.extundo.com [217.13.230.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by yxa.extundo.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6CAlmkU013154 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=OK) for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2003 12:47:49 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody X-Payment: hashcash 1.2 0:030712:ding@gnus.org:495ade316f5b3c51 X-Hashcash: 0:030712:ding@gnus.org:495ade316f5b3c51 In-Reply-To: <4nadbku79d.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 11 Jul 2003 16:40:30 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53403 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:53403 Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, jas@extundo.com wrote: >> I think I'll start on a flygrammar that highlights a vs an mistakes, >> which seems simple enough to start with, although perhaps not that >> useful. Later it could be extended to match other common things >> those web pages mention, and even offer text discussing the mistake >> for the more complicated issues. > > Cool, I'll be happy to test-drive it. http://josefsson.org/flygrammar.el It currently only (attempt to) check if you use the indefinite article properly. To test it, enable flygrammar mode (M-x flygrammar-mode RET) in a buffer and paste in the following: ;; test: an cat a egg a honest an unicorn Since those are incorrect, they are highlighted and there is a balloon help that explains the error. I'm aware of some problems, but all feedback is appreciated. (Although I guess we should move the discussion to comp.emacs.) It doesn't work under XEmacs, for instance.