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diff --git a/config.org b/config.org index 03dd79b..f9a8c47 100644 --- a/config.org +++ b/config.org @@ -334,6 +334,16 @@ Finally, have a binding to jump to a buffer in which there's been some new activ (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.epub\\'" . nov-mode)) #+end_src +* Better prose +The majority of the work i do in emacs is writing documents, so it's nice to know that the words coming out of my fingers are the ones i expect them to be. + +** Autocorrection +Abbrev mode expands one string into another string. I use it as a simple autocorrect mode. If i misspell a word, i run C-x a i g which will prompt me for what to expand the previous word into. I type the correct spelling, and whenever i make that mistake again, it will automatically be corrected. It's important to be careful not to set something that could be a typo for two words though, because otherwise it gets even more annoying. Luckily it's easy to update the abbrevs which are stored in ~/.config/emacs/abbrev_defs. M-x list-abbrevs is also a nice command which shows all the saved abbrevs and how many times they've been expanded. + +#+begin_src elisp +(add-hook 'text-mode-hook #'abbrev-mode) +#+end_src + ** Spellcheck Jinx is a package for spellchecking. Previously i used [[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Spelling.html][flyspell]], which is built in, and [[https://codeberg.org/ideasman42/emacs-spell-fu][spell-fu]]. Flyspell is not ideal because it only checks the word under the point. Furthermore, the correction interface is not pleasant to look at with a proportional font as it uses spaces to align the candidates. Spell-fu checks all the words that are visible, thereby behaving much more like a traditional spell checker. Jinx improves on spell-fu by interacting with the spellcheck process in a more efficient way, and has a nicer interface to corrections. @@ -381,6 +391,8 @@ Almost everywhere else, the ~highlight~ face is used for interactive text on mou (put 'jinx-overlay 'mouse-face '(jinx-misspelled highlight)) #+end_src +I mentioned that i thought this wasn't the best default behaviour [[https://github.com/minad/jinx/discussions/184][in the jinx repository]], but Daniel seems happy with it. I appreciate that he's made it so easy to change the behaviour to something i prefer. + ** Completing-read everywhere with consult Consult is a package to provide navigation commands that take advantage of completing-read. I set up a nice completing-read environment earlier with vertico. There are a lot of commands built in to consult, and it's possible to define more. But i use it very simply. |