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   Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 16:55:32 JST Florian Haas

   Hivemind, please help.

   One thing that still eludes me is a way to lint #Markdown files to enforce a one-sentence-per-line rule. This is remarkably nontrivial.

   Can somebody point me to such a thing? Ideally in #Python, but I'll take any language (even an emacs minor mode will help).

   A bajillion bonus points if the thing can also unwrap wrapped paragraphs and automatically turn them into one sentence per line.

   Boosts appreciated, thanks!

   https://sive.rs/1s

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 16:55:31 JST phiofx

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     @xahteiwi how about simply replace . with .\n (newline)? This will break some edge cases, e.g., e.g. but visible enough to fix. Alternatively look for a more complex regex that escapes and does not replace full stops that are not followed by a space. Implement as per you favorite editor instructions.

     Jetbrains IDE's provide this macro out-of-the box but I only find it useful at the very early stage. I have to put the sentences back together to check whether they read fluently.

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     Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 17:57:28 JST Florian Haas

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     • phiofx

     @phiofx

     Note I did say it's "remarkably nontrivial", meaning it looks trivial at first and then it very much is not.

     https://mastodon.social/@xahteiwi/111577791278480583

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     phiofx (phiofx@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-Dec-2023 17:57:28 JST phiofx

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     @xahteiwi ha ha, yeah, i suppose if you want it to work flawlessly for all the arbitrary formatted stuff that can go into markdown it becomes non-trivial.