Hi. First, please let me know if this is the correct place to talk about
TextLint. I've just used for one paper I am writing and I have some
questions/feedback. I am using the one click image.
1) The "An Rule" could be a little more smart and detects commands. For
example, in my latex I have " an \emph{inner object}" and that was detected
by the rule, althought I shouldn't. So...detecting the slash and ignore what
it surrounded by {} would be nice for this rule.
2) When I edit the code inside TextLint and I save it, two bad things
happens:
2.a) I lost focus of the text, as it moves when it finishing saving.
The line I edited goes to the end of the text area. It would be great if
nothing moves nor to loose focus when saving.
2.b) sometimes (I cannot reproduce) the order of the rules
changes...and this is not good because I was going in order, one by one, and
suddenly they are re-ordered. Maybe you are using a Set for that? using a
simple OrderedCollection could help.
3) If you edit the text (and it differs in the amount of characters), and DO
NOT save it, the following color highlighting are moved. It seems you keep
the position in the file, and until it is saved, rules results are pointing
to "unupdated" file. Of course, when I save the file, they are correct. I
guess this is from a performance point of view, but maybe you have a little
hack to do and make it better.
4) The rule "no white space before punctuation mark" showed me things I
didn't understand. For example, it says this line there is a "," (comma) :
\item[ Shared object ] In the case of the \emph{shared objects}, it is
almost the same as in the \emph{inner objects}. An .....
5) Rules comments clearer. For example, when you say "Avoid using a lot, it
weakens the sentence" It would be better to put "Avoid using "a lot", it
weakens the sentence"
or "Avoid using *a lot*, it weakens the sentence"
or something to clearly mark the words not to use. Because sometimes the
words are confused with the context. Or this one:
"After an only words beginning with a vowel are allowed. "
should be "After "an" only words beginning with a vowel are allowed."
6) For the rules of long sentences/paragraph it would be nice to ignore
\fotenote{}
7) Maybe this link is of interest for you:
http://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/
Apart from all these things, the tool is very useful and I like it.
thanks
Mariano
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