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[Mirror] A linter for prose.

21 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 3 stories, 18 comments · first 2015-10-24 · latest 2025-07-01

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  1. …flags potential issues, you decide and correct if necessary) there are proselint and vale.sh. https://github.com/amperser/proselint https://vale.sh/
    comment by treetalker · 2025-07-01 · in Grammarly acquires Superhuman
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    Proselint – A Linter for Prose
    story by sieste · 2025-02-09 · 0 comments
  3. So cool. Looks like the proselint site is down. For anyone else who wanted to read the approach - https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/b5b7536bec5fd461e...
    comment by sarupbanskota · 2023-11-27 · in Get started with technical writing
  4. …similar style checker. Sadly, that project appears to have been inactive for at least three years. https://github.com/amperser/proselint
    comment by dtrizzle · 2021-01-27 · in How we made Typerighter, the Guardian’s style guide checker
  5. You're looking for proselint. https://github.com/amperser/proselint
    comment by zx321 · 2021-01-19 · in NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
  6. …useful. It explicitly strives to minimize false positives. It comes with a bullshit module, too :) https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/master/proselint/...
    comment by andai · 2019-10-12 · in Bullshit.js
  7. https://github.com/amperser/proselint is also very nice.
    comment by hprotagonist · 2019-08-16 · in Show HN: Homer – A Text Analyzer in Python
  8. Maybe you want to check out proselint? [0] [0] https://github.com/amperser/proselint
    comment by Shoop · 2019-05-25 · in The lingua franca of LaTeX
  9. …more targeted and useful are their suggestions compared to a rule-based tool like proselint[1]? [1] https://github.com/amperser/proselint
    comment by wwwigham · 2017-05-09 · in VCs Put $110M into Grammar-Checking Software
  10. …ReText [3]. Otherwise, we'd love for you to join us in building the Python-based Proselint [4]. 1. https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/master/research/c... 2. https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/text.htm 3.…
    comment by amperser · 2016-07-24 · in Show HN: Pedant: Linting for English texts
  11. I use https://github.com/amperser/proselint with emacs fly check support + e-prime mode.
    comment by vijaykiran · 2016-06-02 · in A linguistics tool to help you simplify your writing
  12. …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...
    comment by ageofwant · 2016-04-04 · in Linting Prose in Emacs with ProseLinter
  13. 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 .
    comment by ArmandGrillet · 2016-04-03 · in Linting Prose in Emacs with ProseLinter
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    A linter for prose
    story by ciudilo · 2016-03-08 · 0 comments
  15. Sounds like a feature request ("recognize and support markdown"). Open an issue at https://github.com/amperser/proselint/issues/new
    comment by Tepix · 2016-03-07 · in Proselint
  16. …on how to be formatted: dictionaries, JSON, bash-argument syntax, and so on. (EDIT: Ah, found one: https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/cd428bb0ecc5530c1... . Can’t quite get it to ignore butterick, though.) I find it a little…
    comment by kmfrk · 2016-03-07 · in Proselint
  17. …rules that you might want to suggest (like the issue I just created when writing this response: https://github.com/amperser/proselint/issues/310 ), please do! It is even more helpful if you can find an authoritative reference to include as…
    comment by mdpacer · 2016-03-07 · in Proselint
  18. …can have arbitrary complexity. However, it seems like most rules are just string or regex matching: https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/master/proselint/... https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/master/proselint/...
    comment by raphman_ · 2016-03-07 · in Proselint
  19. This would catch something like "even more unique". In fact, looking at the code ( https://github.com/amperser/proselint/blob/master/proselint/... ) it would even catch something like "extremely unique", which I've been guilty of using.…
    comment by Vivtek · 2016-03-07 · in Proselint
  20. Github: https://github.com/amperser/proselint/
    comment by brudgers · 2016-03-06 · in Proselint
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    Proselint: A linter for prose
    story by grhmc · 2015-10-24 · 0 comments