The official Visual Studio Code extension for Vale and Vale Server.
The Vale extension for VS Code provides customizable spelling, style, and grammar checking for a variety of markup formats (Markdown, AsciiDoc, reStructuredText, HTML, and DITA).
As of v0.10.0, the extension supports both Vale (the command-line tool) and Vale Server (the desktop application).
NOTE: While this extension supports both Vale CLI and Vale Server, many of the extension's more advanced features (such as Quick Fixes and Vocabulary Management) are only available through Vale Server.
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Install Vale Server;
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install
vale-vscode
(this extension) via the Marketplace; and -
restart VS Code (recommended).
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Install Vale;
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install
vale-vscode
(this extension) via the Marketplace; -
set
vale.core.useCLI
totrue
in the extension settings (Preferences > Extensions > Vale > Use CLI); and -
restart VS Code (recommended).
Browse detailed information for each alert, including the file location, style, and rule ID.
Navigate from an in-editor alert to a rule's implementation on your StylesPath
by clicking "View Rule".
Fix misspellings, word usage, capitalization, and more using Quick Fixes (macOS: cmd + ., Windows/Linux: Ctrl + .)
Add words and phrases to your active Vocab through the in-editor context menu.
Jump to your active Vocab files directly from the Command Palette.
Use the Vale: View Folder Report
command to generate a report for the active folder.
The extension offers a number of settings and configuration options (Preferences > Extensions > Vale), which are split into three groups: Vale > Core
(Vale and Vale Server), Vale > Server
(Vale Server only), and Vale > Vale CLI
(Vale only).
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vale.core.useCLI
(default:false
): Use Vale CLI instead of Vale Server. -
vale.server.serverURL
(default:http://127.0.0.1:7777
): URL to your running Vale Server instance. -
vale.server.provideFixes
(default:true
): Offer solutions to alerts using the 'Quick Fix' button. -
vale.server.lintContext
(default:0
): Only lint the active portion of a document (as determined by the cursor position), allowing for efficient on-the-fly linting of large documents. There are three supported values:-1
(applies to all files),0
(disabled),n
(applies to any file withlines >= n
). -
vale.valeCLI.config
(default:null
): Absolute path to a Vale configuration file. Use the predefined${workspaceFolder}
variable to reference configuration file from a custom location. (NOTE: On Windows you can use '/' and can omit.cmd
in the path value.) If not specified, the extension uses the default search process (relative to the current file).Example
{ // You can use ${workspaceFolder} it will be replaced by workspace folder path "vale.valeCLI.config": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/some-package/.vale.ini" // or use some absolute path "vale.valeCLI.config": "/some/path/to/.vale.ini" }
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vale.valeCLI.path
(default:null
): Absolute path to the Vale binary. Use the predefined${workspaceFolder}
variable to reference a non-global binary. (NOTE: On Windows you can use '/' and can omit.cmd
in the path value.)Example
{ // You can use ${workspaceFolder} it will be replaced by workspace folder path "vale.valeCLI.path": "${workspaceFolder}/node_modules/.bin/vale" // or use some absolute path "vale.valeCLI.path": "/some/path/to/vale" }
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vale.valeCLI.minAlertLevel
(default:inherited
): Defines from which level of errors and above to display in the problems output.