prose-lint for arc

prose-lint is a lint engine for use with Phabricator‘s arc command line tool. It uses the open source proselint tool.

Features

prose-lint generates advice messages.

Example output:

Advice  (misc.annotations) proselint violation
Annotation left in text.

          91 
          92 
>>>       93 TODO(featherless): Some todo left in text.
          94 
          95 
          
Advice  (garner.phrasal_adjectives.ly) proselint violation
No hyphen is necessary in phrasal adjectives with an adverb ending in -ly.

          31 
          32 
          33 
>>>       34 > This thing should be globally-unique.
          35 
          36 
          37 

Installation

Install proselint

pip install proselint

Read the proselint installation guide for more details.

Project-specific

Add this repository as a git submodule.

git submodule init
git submodule add <url for this repo>

Your .arcconfig should list arc-proselint in the load configuration:

{
  "load": [
    "path/to/arc-proselint"
  ]
}

Global

Clone this repository to the same directory where arcanist and libphutil are globally located. Your directory structure will look like so:

arcanist/
libphutil/
arc-proselint/

Your .arcconfig should list arc-proselint in the load configuration (without a path):

{
  "load": [
    "arc-proselint"
  ]
}

Usage

Create a .arclint file in the root of your project and add the following content:

{
  "prose": {
    "type": "prose",
    "include": "(\\.(md)$)"
  },
}

Feel free to change the include/exclude regexes to suit your project’s needs.

Configuration options

Checks can be ignored by configuring their severity:

{
  "prose": {
    "type": "prose",
    "include": "(\\.(md)$)",
    "severity": {
      "typography.symbols.curly_quotes": "disabled",
      "typography.symbols.ellipsis": "disabled",
      "leonard.exclamation.30ppm": "disabled"
    }
  },
}

License

Licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. See LICENSE for details.