Bug#1066893: RFP: vale -- :pencil: A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind.
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org>
* Package name : vale
Version : 3.0.0-1
Upstream Author : errata.ai
* URL : https://github.com/errata-ai/vale
* License : Expat
Programming Lang: Go
Description : A markup-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind.
Vale is a command-line tool that brings code-like linting to
prose. It's fast, cross-platform (Windows, macOS, and Linux), and
highly customizable.
Key Features
Support for markup: Vale has a rich understanding of many markup formats, allowing it to avoid syntax-related false positives and intelligently exclude code snippets from prose-related rules.
A highly customizable extension system: Vale is capable of enforcing your style—be it a standard editorial style guide or a custom in-house set of rules (such as those created by GitLab, Homebrew, Linode, CockroachDB, and Spotify).
Easy-to-install, stand-alone binaries: Unlike other tools, Vale doesn't require you to install and configure a particular programming language and its related tooling (such as Python/pip or Node.js/npm).
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There are a handful of spell-checkers and linters for prose in Debian,
but vale is a little different. It's not *only* a spellchecker and does
*other* things like checking for styles or allow for extensibility.
Similar software include diction(1) and markdownlint, where diction is
*really* old (e.g. doesn't know about markdown) and mdl is not very
customizable (e.g. it's hard, in my experience to add words to a
dictionary).
So I'm considering vale instead.
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