Re: [GNU ELPA] New package: flymake-harper

Eshel Yaron <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi Philip,
>
> Philip Kaludercic <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I forked Manuel's flymake-proselint package and rewrote it to support
>> Harper (https://writewithharper.com/), a offline and lightweight grammar
>> analysis tool (published under Apache-2.0):
>> https://codeberg.org/pkal/flymake-harper.el.  Are there any objections
>> to adding the package to ELPA?
>
> No objections, of course, just a question:
>
> How do I act on Harper diagnostics?
> I see it can flag typos and grammar errors, and the diagnostic message
> text includes possible replacements, but how do I actually apply one of
> those suggestions?

Using a highly context sensitive combination of `delete-backward-char'
and `self-insert-command' ;)

> [ This is related to a general missing feature in Flymake, which I've
>   requested in bug#71504: allowing backends to provide fixes for
>   diagnostics, which users can then apply/accept.  Without such support,
>   I'm not sure Flymake is the best fit for spell/grammar checking. ]

If any progress were to be made on that bug, I think it would totally
make sense to support this.  But just like Flymake doesn't automatically
solve recognizable syntax errors like missing semicola, I think that
using Flymake is entirely acceptable here.  Or to phrase it differently,
what would be a better fit right now?

> Best,
>
> Eshel