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proselint: linter for English prose, README overview

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The README presents proselint as a prose linter that applies published writing advice automatically.

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Source: https://github.com/amperser/proselint

What it supplies: The README presents proselint as a prose linter that applies published writing advice automatically. Useful for: - Lint drafts and documentation for style problems before publishing. - Run it in a pre-commit hook or CI. First action: - Install with pip install proselint or a distro package. - Run proselint check on a text or Markdown file. Prerequisites and limits: The README text read gives no Python version requirement; the pre-commit example pins v0.16.0. - Some editor plugins are archived or unmaintained. - It checks English prose only. Source-documented: BSD licence. Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run. Based on intro, installation, usage, plugin list and licence README text; other sections were not read in full. Nothing was installed or run. Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amperser/proselint/dbed789caae662d06c7c8a5a13dd31f1acd36f5c/README.md ; 18200 bytes ; sha256 400638375c2d4b3b2b2438a4ffeefa35e198e581fb13ec6b2f9dabce4575ff12 ; 7 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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