Textidote - spelling check

[Princeofthebow]

Hi sorry it is me again from yesterday!
As I'm navigating my way trough I'm now looking to make use of a spell checker. From the documentation from what I understand using textidote is possible solution.

I have therefore set the followin .vimrc file:

call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
Plug 'lervag/vimtex'
call plug#end()

let g:tex_flavor = 'latex'
let g:vimtex_view_method = 'mupdf'
let g:vimtex_grammar_textidote = {
            \ 'jar': '/usr/local/bin/textidote.jar',
            \ 'args': '--check en',
            \}

This is my MWE tex file:

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Hellor Worlsd!
\end{document}

but after running :compiler textidote | lmake
I get the following outcome:

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Press ENTER or type command to continue
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

and then after i hit enter an empty vim with:

(1 of 1): make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

This has puzzled me since I as mentioned I'm rather new to vim and vimtex (but not latex).
I have run textidote on the textfile and it appears to be working correctly

ps is there any other way to handle spellcheck that may be better?

Thanks in advance!

[lervag]

Can you show the output of :echo &makeprg and echo &errorformat after you do :compiler textidote (without lmake!)?

[Princeofthebow]

I get the following error message:

vimtex: g:vimtex_grammar_textidote is not properly configured!
        Please see ":help vimtex-grammar-textidote" for more details.

Hum - I wonder why I get this error as it appears that the config in my vimrc file is correct. :-(

:echo &makeprgonly prints make

while :echo &errorformat gives me

%*[^"]"%f"%*\D%l: %m,"%f"%*\D%l: %m,%-G%f:%l: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once,%-G%f:%l: for each function it appears in.),
%-GIn file included from %f:%l:%c:,%-GIn file included from %f:%l:%c\,,%-GIn file included from %f:%l:%c,%-GIn file included from %f:%l,%-G%
*[ ]from %f:%l:%c,%-G%*[ ]from %f:%l:,%-G%*[ ]from %f:%l\,,%-G%*[ ]from %f:%l,%f:%l:%c:%m,%f(%l):%m,%f:%l:%m,"%f"\, line %l%*\D%c%*[^ ] %m,%
D%*\a[%*\d]: Entering directory %*[`']%f',%X%*\a[%*\d]: Leaving directory %*[`']%f',%D%*\a: Entering directory %*[`']%f',%X%*\a: Leaving dir
ectory %*[`']%f',%DMaking %*\a in %f,%f|%l| %m

[lervag]

I think the problem is that your configuration is not correct.

let g:vimtex_grammar_textidote = {
            \ 'jar': '<PATHTO>\textidote.jar',
            \ 'args': '--check en',
            \}

The path in the .jar key is not valid. I would write the path like this: /path/to/textidote.jar. Not sure if the backslash is itself the reason.

[Princeofthebow]

This is what I have in the config, i.e. the whole path:

let g:vimtex_grammar_textidote = {
            \ 'jar': '/usr/local/bin/textidote.jar',
            \ 'args': '--check en',
            \}

I had omitted it in the previous post. BTW textidote can be called even from $HOME. I have edited the previous post.

EDIT

Hum, could it be possible that I have used the Debian installation (ie. a *.deb file) for Textidote this does not work as expected as it is not running from a jar file?
When I have time tomorrow I will try to use the *.jar version of Textidote and report back. If so I maybe you could state it in the docs?

[Princeofthebow]

Ok I confim that the problem was indeed the installation of Textidote as via the jar file it works with :compiler textidote|lmake

Perhaps highlighting this in the documentation might be a good idea as I was convinced the the *.deb file would have placed me the textidote jar file somewhere on system but it did not and in particular it was not a jar file.

I'm starting to have a nice workflow now - once again excellent job on both sw and support. consider that I'm a novice and now I cannot event think of going back to winedt.

[lervag]

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean: did you first try to specify a textidote executable (e.g. /usr/bin/textidote), i.e. not the jar file specifically?

I'm not quite sure exactly what has been confusing, but I don't mind updating and improving the docs. Do you have a concrete suggestion?

I'm starting to have a nice workflow now - once again excellent job on both sw and support. consider that I'm a novice and now I cannot event think of going back to winedt.

Thanks, I'm glad to hear it! :) Btw, I've never heard of WinEdt before (http://www.winedt.com/). There's several other dedicated LaTeX editors, e.g. texmaker and texsuite; I've heard a lot of people find these to be good. But I guess once you go Vim (or neovim), you don't go back :)

[Princeofthebow]

Perhaps I have been unclear,sorry: Texidote for Debian (the distro I use) offers a *.deb package (see here). Such package does not place the texitidote jar file anywhere(i.e. /usr/bin/textidote was not a jar file that vimtex could fetch - I used whereis to search the file).
I then downloaded the jar file (not the *.deb package) and after pointing .vimrc to the right folder (where I had placed the textidote jar file) it all started working.

In other words the *.deb package of textidote did not work and maybe highlighting this on the docs could be a good idea. I.e. specify that the actual jar file is needed

Vim for the win!

[lervag]

Thanks, I've updated the docs. Do you think it suffices?

[ChasingZenith]

Texidote for Debian (the distro I use) offers a *.deb package (see here). Such package does not place the texitidote jar file anywhere(i.e. /usr/bin/textidote was not a jar file that vimtex could fetch - I used whereis to search the file).

Hi @Princeofthebow, I am a Manjaro user and I find that textidote.jar exists on my computer even if I install textidote with a repository. Since I think that package in AUR repository seems to be based on the .deb package. I think these two Linux distributions may have similar behavior.

In fact when I look at what /usr/bin/textidote is, I find that it is a bash script that wraps up textidote.jar.

#! /bin/bash
java -jar /opt/textidote/textidote.jar --name textidote "$@"

EDIT

When I rearranging the functions, the Unknown function error does not come up.

So I think that the following configuration might also works for you

let g:vimtex_grammar_textidote = {
            \ 'jar': '/opt/textidote/textidote.jar',
            \ 'args': '',
            \}

BTW, in this process, I find that the first time I run :compiler textidote|lmake, nvim gives me an error which says that function s:get_textidote_lang is unknown. But execute it again textidote can do proof-reading (but no quickfix windows pop up but just like something were excuted in the integral terminal).

Error detected while processing /home/user/.cache/vimfiles/repos/github.com/lervag/vimtex/compiler/textidote.vim:
line   24:
E117: Unknown function: s:get_textidote_lang
E15: Invalid expression: 'java -jar ' . shellescape(fnamemodify(s:cfg.jar, ':p')) . (has_key(s:cfg, 'args') ? ' ' . s:cfg.args : '') . ' --no-color --
textidote_lang(s:language) . ' %:S'
/opt/textidote/textidote.jar

I look at vimtex/compiler/textidote.vim and find that this function is called before it is defined. Is it the reason why it happened? ( perhaps I need to open a new Issue? @lervag

[lervag]

So I think that the following configuration might also works for you

let g:vimtex_grammar_textidote = {
            \ 'jar': '/opt/textidote/textidote.jar',
            \ 'args': '',
            \}

I can confirm that this should work well on Arch Linux.

BTW, in this process, I find that the first time I run :compiler textidote|lmake, nvim gives me an error which says that function s:get_textidote_lang is unknown.

Thanks, fixed now!

[ChasingZenith]

Thank you for your instant response!!!

BTW, is that no quickfix window the normal way it behave?

[lervag]

No problem! :)

And yes, it is. See :help vimtex-lint (as suggested in intro of :help vimtex-grammar) for an introduction on how to use this feature. The idea is to rely on the built-in feature as much as possible.

[ChasingZenith]

Thank you. I will read it later.