cargo-spellcheck

Check your spelling with hunspell and/or languagetool.

Use Cases

Run cargo spellcheck --fix or cargo spellcheck fix to fix all your documentation comments in order to avoid nasty typos all over your source tree. Meant as a helper simplifying review as well as improving CI checks after a learning phase for custom/topic specific lingo.

Check For Spelling and/or Grammar Mistakes

cargo spellcheck check

Apply Suggestions Interactively

cargo spellcheck fix

Continuous Integration / CI

cargo spellcheck can be configured with -m <code> to return a non-zero return code if mistakes are found instead of 0.

git pre-commit hook

#!/usr/bin/sh

# Redirect output to stderr.
exec 1>&2

exec cargo spellcheck -m 99 $(git diff-index --cached --name-only --diff-filter=AM HEAD)

Implemented Features + Roadmap

• Parse doc comments from arbitrary files
• Decent error printing
• cargo-spellcheck check
• Spell checking using hunspell
• Merge multiline doc comments
• Handle multiline and fragmented mistakes (i.e. for grammar) #25
• Grammar check using languagetool http API
• Follow module declarations rather than blindly recurse
• Be commonmark/markdown aware
  • Handle doc-tests with ```rust as virtual files #43
  • Verify all types of links #44
• Check README.md files #37
• Improve interactive user interface with crossterm
• Ellipsize overly long statements with ... #42
• Learn topic lingo and filter false-positive-suggestions #41
• Handle cargo workspaces #38
• Re-flow doc comments #39
• Collect dev comments as well #115

hunspell and languagetool are currently the two supported featuresets.

Configuration

# Project settings where a Cargo.toml exists and is passed
# ${CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR}/.config/spellcheck.toml

# Also take into account developer comments
dev_comments = false

# Skip the README.md file as defined in the cargo manifest
skip_readme = false

# Fallback to per use configuration files:
# Linux:   /home/alice/.config/cargo_spellcheck/config.toml
# Windows: C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Roaming\cargo_spellcheck\config.toml
# macOS:   /Users/Alice/Library/Preferences/cargo_spellcheck/config.toml
[LanguageTool]
url = "127.0.0.1:8010"

[Hunspell]
# lang and name of `.dic` file
lang = "en_US"
# OS specific additives
# Linux: [ /usr/share/myspell ]
# Windows: []
# macOS [ /home/alice/Libraries/hunspell, /Libraries/hunspell ]

# Additional search paths, which take presedence over the default
# os specific search dirs, searched in order, defaults last
# search_dirs = []

# Adds additional dictionaries, can be specified as
# absolute paths or relative in the search dirs (in this order).
# Relative paths are resolved relative to the configuration file
# which is used.
# Refer to `man 5 hunspell`
# or https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/4-hunspell/#lbAE
# on how to define a custom dictionary file.
extra_dictionaries = []

[Hunspell.quirks]
# Transforms words that are provided by the tokenizer
# into word fragments based on the capture groups which are to
# be checked.
# If no capture groups are present, the matched word is whitelisted.
transform_regex = ["^'([^\\s])'$", "^[0-9]+x$"]
# Accepts `alphabeta` variants if the checker provides a replacement suggestion
# of `alpha-beta`.
allow_concatenation = true
# And the counterpart, which accepts words with dashes, when the suggestion has
# recommendations without the dashes. This is less common.
allow_dashed = false

[NlpRules]
# Allows the user to override the default included
# exports of LanguageTool, with other custom
# languages

# override_rules = "/path/to/rules_binencoded.bin"
# override_tokenizer = "/path/to/tokenizer_binencoded.bin"

[Reflow]
# Reflows doc comments to adhere to adhere to a given maximum line width limit.
max_line_length = 80

To increase verbosity add -v (multiple) to increase verbosity.

Installation

cargo install cargo-spellcheck

Checkers

Available checker support

Hunspell

Requires a C++ compiler to compile the hunspell CXX source files which are part of hunspell-sys

Fedora 30+

dnf install -y clang

Ubuntu 19.10+

apt install -y clang

Mac OS X

brew install llvm

The environment variable LLVM_CONFIG_PATH needs to point to llvm-config, to do so:

export LLVM_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/opt/llvm/bin/llvm-config

NlpRules

When compiled with the default featureset which includes nlprules, the resulting binary can only be distributed under the LGPLv2.1 since the rules and tokenizer definitions are extracted from LanguageTool (which is itself licensed under LGPLv2.1) as described by the library that is used for pulling and integrating - details are to be found under crate nlprule's README.md.

LanguageTool

Deprecated!

You must run an instance of the LanguageTool server i.e. as container.