/grammarly

Unofficial Grammarly VS Code Extension

Primary LanguageTypeScriptMIT LicenseMIT

Grammarly

Update: Grammarly API is released, so this project will switch to official API. See znck#206

Unofficial Grammarly extension.

Preview of Grammarly diagnostics

Using a Paid Grammarly Account

Use the Grammarly: Login to grammarly.com command to enter your account credentials. The command will prompt you first for username and then for a password.

set credentials screencast

Configuring alert severity

You can assign severity levels to the Grammarly diagnostics category. To find diagnostics category name, hover on a problem in the editor. (see category name highlighted in the following example)

Grammarly diagnostic category

{
  "grammarly.severity": {
    "Fragment": 2 // Sets Fragment category to Warning.
  }
}

Severity Levels

Name Value
Error 1
Warning 2
Information 3
Hint 4

Extension Settings

This extension contributes to the following settings:

  • grammarly.autoActivate: Configures Grammarly activation behavior. When set to false, you need to run Grammarly: Check grammar errors to start Grammarly service.
  • grammarly.audience: Sets the default audience for every document.
  • grammarly.dialect: Sets the default dialect for every document.
  • grammarly.domain: Sets the default domain for every document.
  • grammarly.emotions: Sets the default list of emotions for every document.
  • grammarly.goals: Sets the default list of goals for every document.
  • grammarly.userWords: Custom word in the user dictionary.
  • grammarly.overrides: Customize audience, dialect, domain, emotions and goals for specific documents.
  • grammarly.diagnostics: Sets language-specific rules to ignore unnecessary diagnostics.
  • grammarly.severity: Remap the severity of Grammarly alerts.

Release Notes

Version 0.12.0

  • Adds a command to clear credentials.

Version 0.11.0

  • New languages: asciidoc and json.
  • Improved status bar to show extension activity and document status.

Version 0.10.0

  • Opt-out automatic activation by setting grammarly.autoActivate to false.

Version 0.9.0

  • Set document goals interactively using Grammarly: Set document goals command.

Version 0.8.0

  • All file schemes (except git://) are supported.
  • Diagnostics severity is now configurable.
  • A detailed explanation for grammar issues is provided on hover.
  • Diagnostics positions are updated on text change.

Version 0.7.0

Using the keytar package to store user credentials in the system keychain.

Version 0.6.0

Ignore diagnostics in regions of markdown. By default, fenced code blocks are ignored.

To ignore inline code snippets, set grammarly.diagnostics to:

{
  "[markdown]": {
    "ignore": ["inlineCode", "code"]
  }
}

The ignore option uses node types from remark AST, you can find supported type in this example on ASTExplorer.

Version 0.5.0

Custom Grammarly goals per document.

Version 0.4.0

Dismiss alerts.

Version 0.3.0

Save words to local or Grammarly dictionary.

Add to dictionary example

Version 0.1.0

Uses incremental document sync to send operational transformation messages to Grammarly API which gives near real-time feedback/diagnostics.

Version 0.0.0

The initial release of unofficial Grammarly extension.

Enjoy!