ACHECK.1(1)

✨ NAME ✨

acheck — Check common localization mistakes 💖

Okay bestie, acheck is part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation crew, and it is a whole mood 🧚

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📋 SYNOPSIS 📋

acheck [OPTIONS] [INPUT_FILE]

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so acheck literally parses your file and checks it against syntax rules. If you want, it can also ask Aspell to check your spelling 🔥 It suggests fixes, spits out a corrected file, and can add review comments too if you ask nicely ✨

It figures out what kind of file you've got from the extension or the first few lines, then loads the right rules for it 🦋

It shows you each line as it gets parsed 👀

When it finds an error, a menu pops up. Just press Enter if you don't want to change anything 🫶 If one of the choices is giving what you want, type its number. If you want to fix it but none of the choices are right, enter a space and it'll ask for a string to swap in for the highlighted text. Then it replaces the highlighted text with your pick and parses everything again to hunt for new errors 🎀

Here's the full list of commands, no cap 💅

• Enter, ignore — Ignore it, you're good 🌸
• Ctrl+L, redraw — Redraw the last line, the suggestions, and the hints ✨
• Space, edit — Edit the highlighted text 🖊️
• E, edit line — Edit the whole line 💜
• H, add hint — Add the displayed hint as a review comment. Use this when you want the translator to see the warning or error but you don't have a correction 🧚
• N, next line — Skip the rest of this line ⏭️
• X, exit and discard all changes — Quit without saving your changes. The script asks for confirmation, and you have to type yes' to actually leave. Otherwise, parsing starts over at the current mistake 💀

Careful bestie: X throws your changes out the window, so only use it if you really mean it 🙈

• a, add in dictionary — Add the highlighted word to your personal dictionary, capitalized exactly as it is 📖
• l, add lowercase in dictionary — Lowercase the highlighted word, then add it to your personal dictionary 🍓
• i, ignore word — Ignore the highlighted word, same as Enter 🌈
• I, ignore all — Ignore the highlighted word and add it to your session dictionary 👑

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

🌸 Verbosity level

• -q, --quiet — Quiet mode, shhh 🤫
• -v — Verbose mode. It starts at level $Debug + 1, and you can add more of them for more verbosity (see below) 📢
• --verbose n — Set the verbosity level to n (see below) 🎚️

📁 Files

• -i, --input — Input filename. It can be '-' to read data from standard input 📥
• -o, --output — Output filename. It can be '-' to write data to standard output. If you don't give an output filename, your input file gets backed up with the bak_ext' extension and the input filename gets used 📤

🔍 Spell check

• -s, --spell — Check spelling with Aspell 🔤
• -d language, --dict language — Use the language dictionary for Aspell 🌍
• -n, --nospell — Don't check spelling 🙅‍♀️

🦋 Mode

• -r, --review — Review mode. Adds comments on lines beginning with $Comment after the parsed line 💬
• -t, --trans — Translator mode. No comments, just fixes the errors 🧁

🎀 Others

• --rules ruleset — Use the ruleset rules set 📜
• --type filetype — Use filetype no matter what the file type actually is 🫡
• --dump — Dumps the rules to check, then exits. Use this for debugging purposes 🛠️
• -V, --version — Prints the version and exits 🔢
• -h, --help — Prints a short usage message and exits 🆘

🌈 Verbosity Level

• 0 quiet, normal — Only warnings and errors 🤍
• 1 debug — Names of subroutines 🩷
• 2 debug verbose — Names and arguments of subroutines 💜
• 3 .. 5 debug very verbose — Output parsing and checking details 🔥

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

acheck(5), acheck-rules(5) — go read these next, they're giving sequel 🎀

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Nicolas Bertolissio <bertol@debian.org> — the queen who made this whole thing 🫶

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That's the tea, bestie! 💖 Love you, mwah 😘 This page came from perl v5.24.1, dated 2017-01-03, and it's ACHECK.1(1) forever 🌈✨