Parsing source code

[rubdos]

Cfr. vim-syntastic/syntastic/issues/1918.

When using syntastic with language-check on source files, program code is obviously parsed as language, and obviously has a lot of grammatical mistakes.

I know this is a big one, but would it be interesting to add some experimental support to language-check to parse source files? This would be especially useful for LaTeX, as that contains a lot of text. I also think it is useful to parse eg. C, C++ and Java code, and check comments for grammatical and spelling mistakes.

What do you think?

[myint]

I've used detex for this purpose before.

detex document.tex | \
    language-check \
    --language=en-US \
    --disable=COMMA_PARENTHESIS_WHITESPACE \
    --disable=HE_VERB_AGR \
    --disable=MORFOLOGIK_RULE_EN_US \
    --disable=THREE_NN \
    --disable=TO_NON_BASE \
    --disable=UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START \
    --disable=WHITESPACE_RULE \
    -

This was just for a short resume. I use detex on larger documents to do spelling checking, but never with language-check. My guess is that you may get additional false positives when checking papers with figures and more complex things.

Thanks for pointing out the Syntastic issue. proselint, which lcd047 mentioned, looks interesting.

[jxmorris12]

Hi! Since this project has been abandoned, I started a new fork over at https://github.com/jxmorris12/language_tool_python.

My version supports new versions of Java and LanguageTool. language-check is stuck on Java 8 and LanguageTool 3.2; latest versions are Java 14 and LanguageTool 4.9!

I'm happy to help you with your issue if you raise it over at my repository! Thanks!