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Author: Titus von der Malsburg <malsb...@posteo.de>
Commit: Titus von der Malsburg <malsb...@posteo.de>
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+* Emacs mode that automatically detects the language of the current paragraph
-I write a lot of text in multiple languages and I was getting tired of
switching the dictionary of my spell-checker all the time. In true Emacs
spirit, I decided to do something about this and dusted off my grandpa's
parentheses. The code in this repository guesses the language of the current
paragraph and then changes the dictionary of ispell and the language-specific
settings of typo-mode. It also reruns flyspell on the current paragraph, but
only on that paragraph because some docu [...]
+I write a lot of text in multiple languages and I was getting tired of
switching the dictionary of my spell-checker all the time. In true Emacs
spirit, I decided dust off my grandpa's parentheses and to write some code to
address this problem. The result is ~guess-language-mode~, a minor mode for
Emacs that guesses the language of the current paragraph and then changes the
dictionary of ispell and the language settings of typo-mode. It also reruns
Flyspell on the current paragraph, bu [...]
-This is currently a proof of concept and only supports two languages, English
and German. However, it should be very easy to add more languages.
+This is currently a proof of concept and only three languages are supported:
English, French, German. However, it is very easy to add more languages and
this repository already includes the necessary language statistics for 61
additional languages. (These are copied from
[[https://github.com/kent37/guess-language][guess_language.py]].)
** Prerequisites
-This mode assumes that you have Flyspell configured for all relevant languages
(i.e., those listed in ~guess-language-languages~). Guess-language also
assumes that [[https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/typoel][typo-mode]] is
installed and set up.
+This mode assumes that you have Flyspell is activated and configured for all
relevant languages (i.e., those listed in ~guess-language-languages~).
Guess-language also assumes that
[[https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/typoel][typo-mode]] is installed and set up.
** Configuration
@@ -16,9 +17,15 @@ This mode assumes that you have Flyspell configured for all
relevant languages (
(setq guess-language-min-paragraph-length 30)
#+END_SRC
+Available languages at this time:
+
+- ~de~: German
+- ~en~: English
+- ~fr~: French
+
** Usage
-Activate ~guess-language-mode~ in the buffer in which you want to use it. To
activate is automatically in buffers containing human language (as opposed to
programming language), you could add this to ~text-mode-hook~:
+Activate ~guess-language-mode~ in the buffer in which you want to use it. To
activate it automatically in buffers containing human language (as opposed to
programming language), add this to ~text-mode-hook~:
#+BEGIN_SRC elisp
(add-hook 'text-mode-hook (lambda () (guess-language-mode 1)))
