Linting Prose in Emacs with ProseLinter

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Proselint is neat! I've wanted something like this forever.

The other thing I want: someone to build an Emacs mode out of Garner's usage dictionary. That book is begging to be a software tool.

One of my current micro-hobbies is to dissidently post vim alternatives in emacs-spruiking threads, so here you go:

https://github.com/amperser/proselint/tree/master/plugins/vi...

Proselinter looks pretty cool, it is python and can be installed with pip as a command-line tool. Doesn't need Emacs!

I just ran it on some reStructuredText files and it looks that it supports them as well as markdown! It's going to be very helpful for a book in sphinx I'm working on, thank you.

> Proselinter looks pretty cool, it is python and can be installed with pip as a command-line tool. Doesn't need Emacs!

True enough, but everything's better with emacs!

This is really cool, It would be nice for adhering to style guides such as http://www.economist.com/styleguide/introduction/

This is very cool. You had me at David Foster Wallace.

I'll be trying this out:

1. As a sublime plugin for my next blog post. 2. As plain old Python as part of a mass scrape-spellcheck-stylecheck of the corporate website.

I would love an Atom package for ProseLinter!

Multiple ProseLint plugins for text editors, including Atom, are available: https://github.com/amperser/proselint#available-plugins-for-.... Here is a direct link to the one for Atom: https://github.com/AtomLinter/linter-proselint.

There is one already: https://atom.io/packages/linter-proselint

Is there a plugin for ms word?

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