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#3I was skeptical that it would only detect obvious issues, but the sheer number of built-in checks is surprising. I'll try this on the next large text I write.
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#4I've been interested in linters and style checkers for English prose for a while, and I'm excited to try this out!
To the author(s): Your website, as far as I could tell, doesn't tell me how to install it; I had to go to GitHub to realize it was pip-installable. You should consider adding that to the main page.
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#5Can someone who has tried this share their experience?
It sounds really awesome but it's very hard to tell if it's going to be more annoying or more useful. Maybe it would be useful to have some example linting errors on the homepage.
Either way, I really love the idea!
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#6Can someone who has tried this share their experience? It sounds really awesome but it's very hard to tell if it's going to be more annoying or more useful. Maybe it would be useful to have some example linting errors on the homepage. Either way, I really love the idea!
Hmm, I tried it out. Doesn't seem too useful yet and there is some polishing to be done so hopefully this continues to go through further development!
One needed improvement: display the offending line on errors. Then you don't have to toggle between file and console to contextualize the errors.
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#7This sounds promising, but I think a lot of potential users would be deterred by the lack of examples.
This positively screams for a online interface to test drive.
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#8Can I use this with latex?
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#9Ah, another part of my brain I can offload to an external source. It will be interesting when we get to "social-lint", so those of us that are no good at social interactions (through lack of ability or lack of willingness to spend the effort to combat that with ) or that feel they spend far too much brainpower on social interactions to make up for lack of natural ability can benefit.
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#10I question how useful a tool like this is for a skilled writer.
Prose isn't code.
Many key elements of good writing are based around the idea of knowing the rules, and then carefully breaking them.