flymake-languagetool

Flymake support for LanguageTool.

💾 Installation

The instruction to use this plugin.

1. For a Local Server: Download LanguageTool from https://languagetool.org/download/ and extract on to your local machine. For a Remote Server: If you are using LanguageTool's API and have a premium account you will need your username and an api key you can generate here https://languagetool.org/editor/settings/access-tokens
2. Consider adding one of the following snippets to your configuration.

Local LanguageTool Server

(use-package flymake-languagetool
  :ensure t
  :hook ((text-mode       . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (latex-mode      . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (org-mode        . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (markdown-mode   . flymake-languagetool-load))
  :init
  ;; Local Server Configuration
  (setq flymake-languagetool-server-jar
	"path/to/LanguageTool-X.X/languagetool-server.jar"))

Free LanguageTool Account

(use-package flymake-languagetool
  :ensure t
  :hook ((text-mode       . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (latex-mode      . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (org-mode        . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (markdown-mode   . flymake-languagetool-load))
  :init
  ;; LanguageTools API Remote Server Configuration
  (setq flymake-languagetool-server-jar nil)
  (setq flymake-languagetool-url "https://api.languagetool.org"))

Premium LanguageTool Account

(use-package flymake-languagetool
  :ensure t
  :hook ((text-mode       . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (latex-mode      . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (org-mode        . flymake-languagetool-load)
         (markdown-mode   . flymake-languagetool-load))
  :init
  ;; If using Premium Version provide the following information
  (setq flymake-languagetool-server-jar nil)
  (setq flymake-languagetool-url "https://api.languagetoolplus.com")
  (setq flymake-languagetool-api-username "myusername")
  (setq flymake-languagetool-api-key "APIKEY"))

3. 🎉 Done! Now open a text file and hit M-x flymake-mode!

Another option is to add flymake-languagetool-maybe-load to find-file-hook, this way flymake-languagetool will be enabled whenever flymake-mode is active and the current major-mode is included in flymake-languagetool-active-modes.

(add-hook 'find-file-hook 'flymake-languagetool-maybe-load)

🧪 Configuration

Language

The language used for flymake can be customized by using flymake-languagetool-language (Default "en-US")

Active Modes

If you are using flymake-languagetool-maybe-load you can customize which modes flymake-languagetool will be enabled for by adding a major-mode to flymake-languagetool-active-modes. The default value is '(text-mode latex-mode org-mode markdown-mode message-mode)

Spellchecking

LanguageTool’s spellchecking is disabled by default. If flymake-languagetool-check-spelling is non-nil LanguageTool will check for spelling mistakes.

Disabling Rules & Categories

Specific rules can be disabled using flymake-languagetool-disabled-rules. For example, LanguageTool's whitespace rule can be a bit verbose in org-mode and it can be disabled by adding its ID to this variable.

(push "WHITESPACE_RULE" flymake-languagetool--disabled-rules)

The full list of rules and their IDs can be found here.

Similarly, you can disable categories using the flymake-languagetool-disabled-categories variable. The full list of categories can be found in flymake-languagetool-map

You can also disable rules and categories interactively with the Ignore option. These rules will be ignored temporarily, for the current buffer only.

Corrections

Suggestions from LanguageTool can be applied with:

flymake-languagetool-correct: select error in current buffer with completing read

flymake-languagetool-correct-at-point: correct error at point

flymake-languagetool-correct-dwim: if point is on a flymake-languagetool error then correct; otherwise, select one from the current buffer.

Categories

By default, flymake-languagetool will now provide LanguageTool category information for each identified error. If you wish to disable this behavior, you can set flymake-languagetool-use-categories = nil.

🛠️ Contribute

If you would like to contribute to this project, you may either clone and make pull requests to this repository. Or you can clone the project and establish your own branch of this tool. Any methods are welcome!

🔬 Development

To run the test locally, you will need the following tools:

• Eask
• Make (optional)

Install all dependencies and development dependencies:

$ eask install-deps --dev

To test the package's installation:

$ eask package
$ eask install

To test compilation:

$ eask compile

🪧 The following steps are optional, but we recommend you follow these lint results!

The built-in checkdoc linter:

$ eask lint checkdoc

The standard package linter:

$ eask lint package

📝 P.S. For more information, find the Eask manual at https://emacs-eask.github.io/.

⚜️ License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

See LICENSE for details.