New emacs support in the app?

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A couple of days ago, I noticed “emacs” showing up in the LanguageTool app as supported. Well, beta support :slight_smile: Hurray!

Is there any info about this, somewhere? Settings I might have to change, which emacs versions are supported, that sort of thing. Because: it doesn’t work. In the logfile, I see lines like this:

org.languagetool.desktop [UserSelectionHelper] 🍭 calculateCurrentParsedSelection() > no selection in AXTextField
org.languagetool.desktop [AXMonitor] ensureActiveAppHasVisibleWindowOnUserEvent() > App org.gnu.Emacs has no window > clearing focus

There are a lot of existing LanguageTool emacs plugins, but each has a specific combination of ltex/lsp-mode + flymake yes/no + spelling integration yes/no + only local languagetool or online + paid account yes/no. And I haven’t found a combination that works for me :slight_smile: (I have a paid account + I need auto-detection of languages as I write both NL+DE+EN, the LanguageTool app/extension itself works great in firefox/mail/etc.

So… happy in principle about the emacs support, but I’d like to get it to work. (Mac, gnu emacs 30 build).

Reinout

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I have no clue about Emacs but you can have a look on the recent discussions here:
Interested in an lsp-ltex-plus for Emacs? · Issue #148 · ltex-plus/ltex-ls-plus
and the linked repo:
GitHub - alberti42/emacs-ltex-plus: LTeX+: Grammar/spell checker :magnifying_glass_tilted_left::check_mark: for Emacs using LanguageTool with support for LaTeX :graduation_cap:, Markdown :memo:, and others · GitHub

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The discussion you link is exactly why direct support could be handy :slight_smile: It mentions two possible “lsp servers” in emacs. It chooses exactly the one I’m not using. That’s the problem I have with the various extensions: 50% uses the other lsp server, 50% doesn’t support switching languages, 50% doesn’t support paid accounts.
The combination means I have 0% left, somehow.

Reinout