grunt-mdspell

Spell check your markdown files

This plugin runs a spell-checker against the markdown files within your project, reporting any errors that it finds. It's a useful addition to any project that has a lot of documentation, or markdown-based blogs. Here's an example of the output:

Running "mdspell:main" (mdspell) task
    overview.md
        7 | to enforce your team’s coding convntions. It is
    foo/bar.md
        3 | Monkey-patch (hook) functins for debugging and stuff.
        7 | This code should wrk just fine:
>> 3 spelling errors found in 2 files
Warning: Task "mdspell:main" failed. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

You can provide a .spelling file that contains global or file-specific words that should be ignored. Probably the easiest way to create this file is via the interactive mdspell tool which this grunt task is built on.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-mdspell --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-mdspell');

The "mdspell" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named mdspell to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  mdspell: {
    options: {
      // Task-specific options go here.
    },
    your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
    },
  },
});

Options

options.ignoreAcronyms

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Ignores acronyms when spell checking.

options.ignoreNumbers

Type: Boolean Default value: false

Ignores numbers such as 22nd, 31st - numbers without suffix, e.g. 345, are always ignored.

Usage Example

In this example, a number of markdown files are spell checked with both acronyms and numbers ignored.

grunt.initConfig({
  mdspell: {
    options: {
      ignoreAcronyms: true,
      ignoreNumbers: true
    },
    files: {
      src: ['**/*.md']
    },
  },
});

When spelling errors are found, they are reported as follows:

Running "mdspell:main" (mdspell) task
    test/fixtures/foo.md
        7 | to enforce your team’s coding convntions. It is
    test/fixtures/sub-folder/bar.md
        3 | Monkey-patch (hook) functins for debugging and stuff.
        7 | This code should wrk just fine:
>> 3 spelling errors found in 2 files
Warning: Task "mdspell:main" failed. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.