[Question] Issue with ignoring files

[Stanzilla]

• OS (e.g., macOS, Windows, Linux, etc.) - Linux
• Install method (e.g., Go, Homebrew, direct download, etc.) - Homebrew
• Vale version (the result of vale -v) - 2.14

I'm trying to use on vale on *.md files but not on *.fr.md and I can't seem to be able to do that?

[*.fr.md]
Google.Exclamation = NO
Google.Spelling = NO

is what I tried.

[jdkato]

This should work:

[*.fr.md]
Google.Exclamation = NO
Google.Spelling = NO

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Google

You can also filter the *.fr.md files from the command line: $ vale --glob='!*.fr.md' ..

See #245 for a related discussion.

[Stanzilla]

This should work:

[*.fr.md]
Google.Exclamation = NO
Google.Spelling = NO

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Google

You can also filter the *.fr.md files from the command line: $ vale --glob='!*.fr.md' ..

See #245 for a related discussion.

Sadly does not work here

The cli method does but I'd rather have it in the config.

Here is my whole config:

# Vale configuration for the Core Games documentation
# https://errata-ai.github.io/vale/

# Core properties
#----------------
# Specify where to find styles
StylesPath = .github/vale-styles
Vocab = Manticore

# Specify the minimum alert level to report
# Alerts are assigned a level of suggestion, warning, or error.
# For local use it's good to see all the suggestions and warnings.
MinAlertLevel = warning

# Specify how to test a particular type of files
#-----------------------------------------------

[*.fr.md]

Google.Exclamation = NO
Google.Spelling = NO
Google.Headings = NO
Google.Colons = NO
Google.Quotes = NO
Google.FirstPerson = NO
Google.Ellipses = NO

[*.md]

# Vale comes with three built-in styles: write-good, proselint, and Joblint.
# You could enable all rules in the "Google" style guide as follows:
BasedOnStyles = Google

# Initially, we only want to run a few rules, so we'll specify them individually
# Style.Rule = {YES, NO} to enable or disable a specific rule

Google.Spacing = NO ; too many false positives
Google.Ordinal = NO
Google.Quotes = NO
Google.Units = YES
Google.OptionalPlurals = YES
Google.Slang = YES
Google.We = NO ; disable but long term enable
Google.Headings = NO
Google.WordList = NO ; warn `above`, reference sections by name
Google.Will = NO
Google.Ellipses = NO
Google.Colons = NO
Google.FirstPerson = NO
Google.Ranges = YES
Google.OxfordComma = YES

# Modify the level of some rules
Google.Exclamation = warning

# Suggestions
Google.Acronyms = YES
Google.Contractions = NO
Google.Parens = NO
Google.Passive = NO
Google.Semicolons = NO

# Manticore rules
Manticore.FirstPerson = YES

Edit: Nevermind, I understood the scoping now, I have to use BasedOnStyles = Google in both sections and then just disable everything in the first. Thank you!

[jdkato]

I think there may actual be a bug here: it seems like the results are nondeterministic between runs.

[Stanzilla]

I think there may actual be a bug here: it seems like the results are nondeterministic between runs.

I was just about to post that, got me confused for a second when I got different results between runs

[jdkato]

This should be fixed in the latest release.

However, for cases where a given file could match more than one section (e.g., foo.fr.md matches both *.md and *.fr.md), overrides will be applied in a cascading fashion -- so, you'll want to apply the fr overrides after the md section:

[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Google

[*.fr.md]
Google.Exclamation = NO
Google.Spelling = NO

[Stanzilla]

Thanks!