dpelle/vim-LanguageTool

relationship between this plugin and LanguageTool.nvim?

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jdhao commented

I have just noticed that this plugin is similar to LanguageTool.nvim, and you are also listed one of the contributors to that plugin.

So what is the relationship between these two plugins? Is LanguageTool.nvim a fork of this plugin? Or else?

dpelle commented

I did not know about that plugin. It looks like fork of my vim-LanguageTool plugin, with some additions (e.g. ]] and [[ to navigate in a error summary window, support for server instead of command line of LanguageTool) and maybe more (I did not look in details).

Maelan commented

@jdhao, the starting point of this fork is apparently the ignored PR #19 by @vigoux. There you’ll find a TODO list which gives a first clue of what the changes are. This looks all good (especially the first two: replace the deprecated XML API with the new JSON API, use LanguageTool in server mode), but it requires NeoVim, hence the fork.

jdhao commented

@Maelan Thanks for pointing this out! 👍

vigoux commented

Indeed, LanguageTool.nvim is originally a fork on this plugin. After some work on it though it ended up being a near complete rewrite, appart from the README I think, and most of the ideas this plugin has.
Another thing that is worth noting is that LanguageTool.nvim is built to work with neovim only.