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LanguageTool : Grammar checker for English, French, German (etc.) in Vim

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created by
Dominique Pellé
 
script type
utility
 
description
This plugin integrates the LanguageTool grammar checker into Vim.
Current version of LanguageTool can check grammar in many languages
See the list of supported languages: http://www.languagetool.org/languages/
or http://www.languagetool.org/ or more information about LanguageTool.

The script defines 2 commands:

* Use  :LanguageToolCheck  to check grammar in current buffer.
  This will check for grammar mistakes in text of current buffer
  and highlight the errors. It also opens a new scratch window with the
  list of grammar errors with further explanations for each error.
  Pressing <Enter> in scratch buffer will jump to that error. The
  location list for the buffer being checked is also populated.
  So you can use location commands such as :lopen to open the location
  list window, :lne to jump to the next error, etc.

* Use  :LanguageToolClear  to remove highlighting of grammar mistakes,
  close the scratch window containing the list of errors, clear and
  close the location list.

See screenshots of grammar checking in English and French at:
  http://dominique.pelle.free.fr/pic/LanguageToolVimPlugin_en.png
  http://dominique.pelle.free.fr/pic/LanguageToolVimPlugin_fr.png

See  :help LanguageTool  for more details.

License:
  The VIM LICENSE applies to LanguageTool.vim plugin
  (see ":help copyright" except use "LanguageTool.vim" instead of Vim").
 
install details
Install the plugin with:

  $ mkdir ~/.vim
  $ cd ~/.vim
  $ unzip /path-to/LanguageTool.zip
  $ vim -c 'helptags ~/.vim/doc'

To use this plugin, you need to install the Java LanguageTool program. You
can choose to:

* download stand-alone version of LanguageTool (LanguageTool-*.zip) from:
  http://www.languagetool.org/ using the orange button labeled
  "LanguageTool for standalone for your desktop". The standalone version of
  Vim not only does grammar checking but also contains Hunspell dictionaries
  for spell checking.
* or download a nightly build LanguageTool-.*-snapshot.zip from
  http://www.languagetool.org/download/snapshots/. It contains a more
  recent version than the stable version but it is not as well tested.
* or checkout and build the latest LanguageTool from sources in git
  (https://github.com/languagetool-org/languagetool)

See ":help languagetool-installation" for more details about installing LanguageTool.

After installing LanguageTool, you must specify the location of the file
languagetool-commandline.jar in your $HOME/.vimrc file. Example:

  let g:languagetool_jar='$HOME/languagetool/languagetool-standalone/target/LanguageTool-3.3-SNAPSHOT/LanguageTool-3.3-SNAPSHOT/languagetool-commandline.jar'
 

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package script version date Vim version user release notes
LanguageTool.zip 1.30 2016-10-06 7.0 Dominique Pellé - fixed several bugs
LanguageTool.zip 1.29 2016-01-17 7.0 Dominique Pellé - highlighting text could be wrong when text contained tabs
LanguageTool.zip 1.28 2014-02-20 7.0 Dominique Pellé - updated help file to reflect the change in LanguageTool:
   LanguageTool.jar file was renamed into
   languagetool-commandline.jar
LanguageTool.zip 1.27 2013-12-07 7.0 Dominique Pellé - print stderr output of LanguageTool command line if somehow it fails to help diagnose problems.
LanguageTool.zip 1.26 2013-09-11 7.0 Dominique Pellé - updated doc to describe how to download and install LanguageTool
LanguageTool.zip 1.25 2013-02-08 7.0 Dominique Pellé - minor doc updates
LanguageTool.zip 1.24 2013-02-08 7.0 Dominique Pellé - updated doc to explain how to build LanguageTool after LanguageTool moved from Ant to Maven
- German spelling mistakes were highlighted as grammar errors
- if no language is specified, use 'en-US' as default rather than 'en' so spelling mistakes are signalled.
LanguageTool.zip 1.23 2012-09-24 7.0 Dominique Pellé - added items in menu of gvim: Plugin->LanguageTool->{Check,Clear}
LanguageTool.zip 1.22 2012-09-21 7.0 Dominique Pellé - fixed xml parsing which was broken with latest LanguageTool nightly build (soon to become LanguageTool-1.9)
- use norm! rather than norm to be more robust
LanguageTool.zip 1.21 2012-07-01 7.0 Dominique Pellé - fixed bug reported by Alexey Radkov: plugin set invalid language for LanguageTool when 'spelllang' contained multiple languages (such as: ru_ru,en_us).
- LanguageTool-1.8 is not required to be able to use language regions such as en-US, de-DE, etc.
LanguageTool.zip 1.20 2012-06-26 7.0 Dominique Pellé - different highlighting for spelling error rules HUNSPELL_NO_SUGGEST_RULE and MORFOLOGIK_RULE_* than for grammar errors
- automatically find the language region from spelllang
LanguageTool.zip 1.19 2012-06-17 7.0 Dominique Pellé - oops, last version fixed a highlighting bug with multi-byte, and introduced another bug. Correctly fixed now.
LanguageTool.zip 1.18 2012-06-12 7.0 Dominique Pellé - added g:languagetool_lang configuration variable to override 'spelllang'.
- use different colors for grammar mistakes and spelling errors given by new HUNSPELL_RULE rule in LanguageTool-1.8.
- fixed bug with utf-8 when highlighting errors
LanguageTool.zip 1.17 2012-05-30 7.0 Dominique Pellé - Unescape XML special char (ampersand...) before showing the URL
LanguageTool.zip 1.16 2012-05-30 7.0 Dominique Pellé - added support for <url> (new in LanguageTool-1.8) which can show a URL with more detailed information about a grammatical error.
- added link to screencast in doc.
LanguageTool.zip 1.15 2012-03-07 7.0 Dominique Pellé Wrong portion of text could be highlighted when text near error contained quotes.
LanguageTool.zip 1.14 2011-03-27 7.0 Dominique Pellé - display subid in XML output of LanguageTool (introduced in LanguageTool-1.1)
- updated doc now the LanguageTool project uses svn rather than cvs
- removed handling of mouse (it was more annoying than useful to grab the mouse)
LanguageTool.zip 1.13 2010-09-20 7.0 Dominique Pellé - cope with small changes in XML output of LanguageTool-1-1-beta.
- Plugin can still parse output of LanguageTool-1.0.
LanguageTool.zip 1.12 2010-09-07 7.0 Dominique Pellé - (bug) fixed incorrect handling of multibyte causing missing highlighting
LanguageTool.zip 1.11 2010-09-04 7.0 Dominique Pellé - (bug) regex to parse rules from LanguageTool output did not accept rule with dash
- (improvement) don't waste a line displaying "Correction:" in scratch buffer when error has no suggested correction
LanguageTool.zip 1.10 2010-09-03 7.0 Dominique Pellé - avoid spurious highlighting when text of error appears multiple times in line.
LanguageTool.zip 1.9 2010-09-02 7.0 Dominique Pellé - improved handling of LeftMouse event (used when clicking on error to jump to its location)
LanguageTool.zip 1.8 2010-08-30 7.0 Dominique Pellé - (bug) fixed syntax error
- fixed broken links in help page
LanguageTool.zip 1.7 2010-08-30 7.0 Dominique Pellé - :LanguageToolCheck command now accepts a range
- (bug) more fixes to properly handle XML characters such as &
LanguageTool.zip 1.6 2010-08-30 7.0 Dominique Pellé - created a Vim help page  (:help LanguageTool)
LanguageTool.vim 1.5 2010-08-30 7.0 Dominique Pellé - (bug) XML code such as " < (etc) had to be replaced in " & (etc)
- (bug) escaping \ and ' in regex was not right
- improved comment explaining how to install LanguageTool
LanguageTool.vim 1.4 2010-08-29 7.0 Dominique Pellé - (bug) substitute things like "e; into " from input XML.
LanguageTool.vim 1.3 2010-08-29 7.0 Dominique Pellé - populate location list (can now use commands :lopen, :lne, ...)
LanguageTool.vim 1.2 2010-08-29 7.0 Dominique Pellé - check whether running language tool succeeded + a few other fixes
LanguageTool.vim 1.1 2010-08-29 7.0 Dominique Pellé - (bug) fall back to 'enc' encoding when 'fenc' is not set
- (new) can now click on error in scratch buffer to jump to them (if mouse is enabled)
LanguageTool.vim 1.0 2010-08-29 7.0 Dominique Pellé - added escape() and nomagic in a regex to avoid errors
LanguageTool.vim 0.9 2010-08-29 7.0 Dominique Pellé - pressing <Enter> on an error in scratch buffer now jumps to that error
LanguageTool.vim 0.8 2010-08-28 7.0 Dominique Pellé Initial upload
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