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dpelle / vim-LanguageTool

A vim plugin for the LanguageTool grammar checker
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Passive voice rule #9

Closed xirdneh closed 4 years ago

xirdneh commented 6 years ago

This plugin has done wonders for my writing. Although I'm trying to see if it has passive voice checks but it seems like it's not working in vim. According to this page Language Tool can identify passive voice: https://community.languagetool.org/rule/show/PASSIVE_VOICE?lang=en&subId=5

I tried the example in that page but I didn't see any errors showing up. Is there anything I need to do to get passive voice checks? Thanks.

abers commented 5 years ago

Having same issue. Would be helpful to have a list of possible rules and categories as well as a way to confirm which are currently enabled. Edit: Given there are no examples in the README I cannot fathom from the text how to know whether I am correctly enabling rules/categories or not.

dpelle commented 4 years ago

I see in languagetool/languagetool-language-modules/en/src/main/resources/org/languagetool/rules/en/grammar.xml that the rule is turned-off by default:

<rulegroup default="off" id="PASSIVE_VOICE" name="Passive voice">

(notice the default="off").

The command line version of LanguageTool has the option -e to enable rules which are normally off by default. LanguageTool plugin can enable rules by setting this variable (comma separated rule names). So you solve your problem by adding this in your ~/.vimrc:

:let g:languagetool_enable_rules='PASSIVE_VOICE'

I just checked. It works.