Timeline for What options are there for writing better non-programming text in Emacs?
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| Jun 4, 2018 at 10:52 | answer | added | pseudomyne | timeline score: 2 | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:52 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 25, 2015 at 19:47 | answer | added | Steven Arntson | timeline score: 15 | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 16:50 | comment | added | Erik Hetzner |
Computers cannot effectively improve your writing, at least currently. Geoffrey K. Pullum and Mark Liberman write about this a lot, for example, see itre.cis.upenn.edu/myl/languagelog/archives/005061.html or languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=10416 As an example of how silly this is, I installed writegood-mode and yanked in the first paragraph of "My Old Man" (from the above link). writegood-mode identifies "my old man was cut out for a fat guy" as passive, which it is not. These systems a) do not work well and b) are based on bad rules about good writing.
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| Apr 6, 2015 at 15:47 | history | edited | Drew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 3, 2014 at 15:13 | history | edited | itsjeyd | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| S Oct 15, 2014 at 22:42 | history | suggested | b4hand |
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| Oct 15, 2014 at 8:12 | comment | added | tripleee |
Trad Unix had style and diction, and I am vaguely aware of an attempt to reimplement them as open source. If the tools actually work, adding an Emacs wrapper should be a snap.
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 22:16 | answer | added | Archenoth | timeline score: 67 | |
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| Oct 14, 2014 at 22:11 | comment | added | Drew | Improving your phrasing etc. is off-topic here, I should think. There are SE sites for learning to write better. Your question should be confined to how Emacs can help you write and edit text. And that is already very broad - it could be considered too broad for a single question. Can you imagine if all of the questions about writing-help are bundled into just your one question? You would be much better off focusing on one thing at a time. And everyone else would benefit from that also. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 22:04 | answer | added | Vamsi | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 22:03 | comment | added | elemakil | Hence I have restricted the "anything" with that part in parentheses... Also, I don't see in what possible way "improving your phrasing" could be vague inn the context of writing. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 21:59 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | “Anything which I forgot” is intrinsically too broad. “Improving your phrasing” is awfully vague, too. | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 21:36 | answer | added | Drew | timeline score: 16 | |
| Oct 14, 2014 at 21:21 | history | asked | elemakil | CC BY-SA 3.0 |