rstcheck(1)

rstcheck1

Check syntax of restructuredtext files and nested code blocks

Usage

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 ...]

Overview

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

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Bash

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Doctest

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C (C99)

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C++ (C++11)

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JSON

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XML

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Python

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restructuredTest

Options

--config FILE

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.

-r, --recursive

Treat input file names as directories and recursively check all .rst files within.

--report LEVEL

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-language LANG, --ignore LANG

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-messages (MSG)

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-directivesDIR

Ignore any rST directives from the comma-separated list DIR.

--ignore-substitutionsSUB

Ignore any rST substitutions from the comma-separated list SUB.

--ignore-rolesROLES

Ignore any rST roles from the comma-separated list ROLES.

Integration with vim

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.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 12
  2. 13

Author

rstcheck was written by Steven Myint. This manual page was written by Timo Röhling ⟨[email protected]⟩ for Debian and may be reused without restriction.

From rstcheck 6.2.4+~1.2.1-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.