textlint

The pluggable linting tool for text(plain text and markdown).

It is similar to ESLint.

Installation

$ npm install textlint -g

Usage

• more more document

$ textlint README.md

CLI

See help.

$ textlint -h
textlint [options] file.md [file.txt] [dir]

Options:
  -h, --help                 Show help.
  --rulesdir [path::String]  Set rules from this directory and set all default rules to off.
  -f, --format String        Use a specific output format. - default: stylish
  -v, --version              Outputs the version number.
  --ext [String]             Specify text file extensions.
  --no-color                 Enable color in piped output.
  -o, --output-file path::String  Enable report to be written to a file.
  --quiet                    Report errors only. - default: false
  --stdin                    Lint code provided on <STDIN>. - default: false

Built-in formatters

See formatters/.

Currently, you can use "stylish" (defaults), "compact", "checkstyle", "jslint-xml", "junit", "tap", "pretty-error".

e.g.) use pretty-error.js

$ textlint -f pretty-error file.md

Use as node modules

You can use textlint as node modules.

$ npm install textlint --save-dev

Minimal usage:

var TextLintEngine = require("textlint").TextLintEngine;
var engine = new TextLintEngine({
    rulePaths: ["path/to/rule-dir"]
});
var results = engine.executeOnFiles(["README.md"]);
console.log(results[0].filePath);// => "README.md"
console.log(results[0].messages);// => [{message:"lint message"}]
if (engine.isErrorResults(results)) {
        var output = engine.formatResults(results);
    console.log(output);
}

High level usage:

var textlint = require("textlint").textlint;
textlint.setupRules({
    // rule-key : rule function(see docs/create-rules.md)
    "rule-key": function(context){
        var exports = {};
        exports[context.Syntax.Str] = function (node) {
            context.report(node, new context.RuleError("error message"));
        };
        return exports;
    }
});
var results = cliEngine.executeOnFiles(["README.md"]);
console.log(results[0].filePath);// => "README.md"
console.log(results[0].messages);// => [{message:"lint message"}]

More detail:

• See docs/use-as-modules.md

FAQ: How to create rules?

Please see docs/

• docs/txtnode.md
  • What is is TxtNode?
• docs/create-rules.md
  • How to create rules?
  • Tutorial: creating no-todo rule.

Contributing

1. Fork it!
2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
5. Submit a pull request :D

License

MIT

and

lib/load-rules.js, util/traverse.js, cli.js and formatters are:

ESLint
Copyright (c) 2013 Nicholas C. Zakas. All rights reserved.
https://github.com/eslint/eslint/blob/master/LICENSE

Related Work

SCG: TextLint is similar project.

SCG: TextLint's place is equal to my textlint(Fortuitously, project's name is the same too!).

via Natural Language Checking with Program Checking Tools

Acknowledgements

Thanks to ESLint.