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RSTCHECK(1) Text Processing Tools RSTCHECK(1)

rstcheck - check syntax of reStructuredText files and nested code blocks

rstcheck [--config FILE] [-r] [--report LEVEL] [--ignore-language LANG] [--ignore-messages MSG] [--ignore-directives DIR] [--ignore-substitutions SUB] [--ignore-roles ROLES] FILE.rst [FILE.rst ...]

rstcheck validates the syntax of reStructuredText files and can also verify the syntax for a number of languages in nested code blocks:

  • Bash
  • Doctest
  • C (C99)
  • C++ (C++11)
  • JSON
  • XML
  • Python
  • restructuredTest

load configuration from FILE. The configuration is expected in INI file format with a section [rstcheck] and key-value pairs which correspond with command line options.
Treat input file names as directories and recursively check all .rst files within.
restrict reported severities to LEVEL or higher. Valid levels in increasing order of severity are: info, warning, error, severe. You can also specify none to suppress all output.
Ignore code blocks with one of the languages LANG, where LANG is a comma-separated list of code block language identifiers. You can also disable language checking with a block comment such as
.. rstcheck: ignore-language=cpp,python,rst
    
near the beginning of the input file.
Ignore all messages that match the regular expression MSG. Note that you will probably need to quote the regex to prevent spurious shell expansion:
"(Title underline too short.*|Duplicate implicit target.*)"
    
Ignore any rST directives from the comma-separated list DIR.
Ignore any rST substitutions from the comma-separated list SUB.
Ignore any rST roles from the comma-separated list ROLES.

You can instruct Syntastic to check .rst files with rstcheck like this:

let g:syntastic_rst_checkers = ['rstcheck']

ALE will detect the presence of rstcheck automatically, no additional configuration is required.

rstcheck was written by Steven Myint. This manual page was written by Timo Röhling for Debian and may be reused without restriction.

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