flymake-vale

Flymake support for Vale

Vale is a natural language linter. So with flymake-vale you get on-the-fly natural language linting.

Installation

The instruction to use this plugin.

1. Install Vale with package manager or download from Releases and place in your $PATH.

2. Configure Vale following its documentation Vale Config

3. Install flymake-vale. Until it is submitted to Elpa and/or Melpa, you can install it with Straight.el:

(straight-use-package
 '(flymake-vale :type git :host github :repo "tpeacock19/flymake-vale"))

or cloning this repository:

cd path/to/custom/lisp
git clone https://github.com/tpeacock19/flymake-vale
(add-to-list 'load-path "path/to/custom/lisp/flymake-vale")

Enabling Backend

You can add flymake-vale as a backend to specific modes by adding flymake-vale-load to the relevant hook:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook #'flymake-vale-load)
(add-hook 'latex-mode-hook #'flymake-vale-load)
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook #'flymake-vale-load)
(add-hook 'markdown-mode-hook #'flymake-vale-load)
(add-hook 'message-mode-hook #'flymake-vale-load)

You can also have flymake-vale load automatically upon opening a file when that file's major mode is in flymake-vale-modes:

(add-hook 'find-file-hook 'flymake-vale-maybe-load)
;; flymake-vale-modes defaults to: 
;;  => (text-mode latex-mode org-mode markdown-mode message-mode)

(add-to-list 'flymake-vale-modes 'adoc-mode)

Now open a text file and enable flymake (M-x flymake-mode).

File Extensions

Vale has support for text markup formats (including org-mode support), but it needs to know the file extension so it can parse the content of the file, while ignoring the parts we don't want to check. The current logic is to use in order of preference:

1. The buffer-local variable flymake-vale-file-ext if it is non nil. This can be used to override and send your preferred extension.

(add-hook 'org-msg-mode-hook (lambda ()
                               (setq flymake-vale-file-ext "org")
                               (flymake-vale-load)))

2. If the buffer is visiting a file, use that file's extension.

3. If the buffer's major-mode is in the flymake-vale-mode-file-exts alist then use its corresponding extension. This currently includes all built-in scoping formats and can be customized to include new modes like this:

(add-to-list 'flymake-vale-mode-file-exts '(rust-mode . "rs"))