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How to get Vale to work with Vim’s Ale plugin
Vale is an extensible syntax aware linter. It can integrate with Vim via Ale although there’s a gotcha to be aware of.
Vale’s config file uses globs to determine which formats to apply. E.g.
[posts/*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Vale, write-good, proselint
However, by default, Ale lint files by running each linter on a temporary copy of the file which has a different path. This means the above glob doesn’t match and Vale finds no errors.
To work around this, it’s best to avoid folders your .vale.ini
globs:
[*.md]
BasedOnStyles = Vale, write-good, proselint
as this will match temporary files (that still have a .md
extension).
Further reading:
- There’s a bit more discussion on this Github ticket.
- The
:ALEInfo
command is very useful for debugging why Ale isn’t doing what you expect it to.