linter-retextjs

A plugin for Atom's Linter providing an interface to retext. Retext is a natural language processor that includes plugins to check for bad prose. The full list of retext plugins is here. The code is hosted at https://github.com/benmarwick/linter-retextjs

This package is like a super-set of linters that combines the checks provided by linter-alex, write-good, linter-just-say-no, and others. It was inspired by the discussion on the Using Atom for academic writing

This package provides these retext checkers:

• cliches: Checks phrases for cliches
• equality: checks for possible insensitive, inconsiderate language, equivalent to linter-alex
• intensify: check for weak and mitigating wording, similar to linter-just-say-no
• profanities: check for profane and vulgar wording
• passive: check for passive voice, similar to linter-write-good
• repeated words: check for repeated words
• simplify: check phrases for simpler alternatives
• contractions: check apostrophe use in contractions
• usage: warn about incorrect English usage, similar to linter-proselint.
• indefinite article: check if indefinite articles (a, an) are used correctly
• diacritics: check for proper use of diacritics

It does not include readability, because that works at sentence-level while the others work at word- or short-phrase-level. The absence of this checker, and the addition of several others, are the main differences with camjc/atom-linter-retext

Installation

Command Line

1. Install Atom
2. In the terminal, install the package via apm:

apm install linter-retextjs

GUI

1. Install Atom
2. Launch Atom
3. Open Settings View using Cmd+, on macOS or Ctrl+, on other platforms
4. Click the Install tab on the left side
5. Enter linter-retextjs in the search box and press Enter
6. Click the "Install" button that appears

Running locally

Clone and install from your disc to experiment with modifications:

git clone https://github.com/benmarwick/linter-retextjs.git
cd linter-retextjs
apm install

Contributing

Issues regarding linter-retextjs should be opened in this repository. Please raise issues with retext on its repository.

License

MIT © Cameron Chamberlain & Ben Marwick

Based on atom-linter-alex: MIT © Titus Wormer