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Summary

Two commits, one per item.

• Bump ALE past the proselint 0.16 fix (Bump the ALE submodule past the proselint 0.16 fix #145). The ALE submodule moves
  from 80ff84db (v4.0.0-48) to 422c0e8e (v4.0.0-169), the tip of ALE's
  master. No release tag follows fix-proselint dense-analysis/ale#5074 (d59cb7b3,
  fix-proselint): v4.0.0 is still ALE's newest tag. That commit asks
  proselint for its version and runs proselint check %t from 0.16.0 on,
  proselint %t before. The note in docs/proselint.md saying the pinned
  ALE could not run proselint is replaced by what ALE now does.
• Move ALE's Markdown linters to the ftplugin; drop duplicates (Refs
  Small tidy-ups: envsubstitute help quote, old shell-lint warnings, proselint config path #44).
  • The late ale.vim set g:ale_linters.markdown for every buffer under
    TODO: Move to ftplugin/markdown.vim. It is now b:ale_linters in
    after/ftplugin/markdown.vim, and the "no Markdown fixer" note moved
    with it.
  • The JSONC fixer (jq) was set in the late ale.vim and in
    after/ftplugin/json.vim, which Vim's ftplugin/jsonc.vim runs for
    JSONC buffers (runtime! ftplugin/json.vim). The late ale.vim copy is
    gone; the JSON ftplugin keeps it.
  • g:ale_disable_lsp was set in .vimrc and in the early ale.vim.
    Both are read before ALE's plugin/ale.vim, which sets it to 'auto'
    when nothing set it first. The early ale.vim keeps it, since that file
    is where settings ALE needs before it loads belong; the .vimrc line is
    gone.
  • docs/coc-ale-setup.md and docs/proselint.md say where these
    settings now live.

ALE changes between the two pins

121 commits. I read the log, and the diffs of every linter, fixer and helper
our settings name (gawk, hadolint, markdownlint, proselint, powershell,
sqlint, systemd-analyze, vint, tflint, yamllint; fixers
remove_trailing_lines, trim_whitespace, jq, sqlformat, isort, yapf, shfmt,
terraform, google_java_format; ale#path#FindNearestFile). Nothing breaks
our settings:

• markdownlint renamed (#5165): the linter is now markdownlint_cli,
  and markdownlint and markdownlint-cli are kept as aliases. Our
  markdownlint still selects it (the new test checks this), and
  markdown_markdownlint_options keeps its name. Problems are now typed by
  markdownlint's own error/warning instead of all being warnings, and
  ALE's messages name the linter markdownlint_cli. A new
  markdownlint_cli2 linter exists; g:ale_linters_explicit keeps it off.
• ale#path#FindNearestFile now resolves symlinks in the path it
  returns. The Markdown ftplugin passes that path straight to markdownlint,
  so nothing changes for it.
• vint's version check now runs with PYTHONWARNINGS=ignore. The option
  padding in the shfmt, sqlformat, terraform and google_java_format fixers
  is now done by ale#Pad, which builds the same command line.
• The fixer registry only gained entries; nothing we use was removed.

Test plan

• bats tests/vim: 79 tests pass (75 before, plus the 4 new ones), on the
  new pin.
• bats tests/shell: passes.
• markdownlint (the pinned CI image) on both changed docs: clean.

Testing evaluation

Run by the PR's author to the qa-tester's standard (this repository declares
no team-managed: sentinel).

1. Verdict: needs tests for the behaviour item 2 changes; the bump is
   covered by the existing tests/vim/ale-linters.bats, which checks every
   name we configure against the checked-out ALE and passes on the new pin.
2. Automatable: yes. bats, new file tests/vim/ale-settings.bats.
3. Falsifiers, each seen red and then green:
   • ALE's LSP support is off once ALE has loaded: red
     (disable_lsp='auto') with the g:ale_disable_lsp line removed from
     the early ale.vim.
   • a Markdown buffer is linted by markdownlint and proselint (also
     checks both are ALE linter names or aliases): red (linters='unset')
     before the move.
   • the Markdown linters are not set for every buffer: red
     (at_start=1, after_markdown=1) before the move.
   • a JSONC buffer is fixed by jq: red (fixers='unset') with the
     JSONC line removed from the JSON ftplugin, which is what makes removing
     the late ale.vim copy safe.
4. Disposition: written in this PR.

Every test asserts loaded_ale=1, so none passes on a Vim where ALE did not
load.

Manual verification

1. Where: a terminal with proselint 0.16 or later on PATH and this
   checkout as XDG_DOTVIM.
2. What: write a Markdown file holding This is very unique., open it
   with vim -N -u "$XDG_DOTVIM/.vimrc" file.md, wait a moment, run
   :copen.
3. Success: the quickfix list shows proselint warnings for line 1, such
   as Comparison of an uncomparable: 'very unique' is not comparable.
4. Failure: on the old pin, proselint 0.16 rejects proselint file.md
   and the list shows nothing from proselint.

Run result (headless, proselint 0.16.0 in a scratch venv, the
equivalent of steps 2 and 3 read with ale#engine#GetLoclist):

• proselint 3: uncomparables: Comparison of an uncomparable: 'very unique' is not comparable.
• proselint 3: weasel_words.very: Substitute 'damn' every time ...
• The buffer's b:ale_linters read ['markdownlint', 'proselint'].
• Step 4 was not re-run on the old pin.

Review

Self-review of the whole diff (the code-review skill was not available to
this seat). Found one false statement in docs/coc-ale-setup.md, now fixed:
it said the late ale.vim sets a Markdown fixer and that Markdown has
fixers of its own. It never had either, so Markdown gets the global
trailing-whitespace fixers, as ALE falls back to * when a filetype names
none.

Completion report

1. The functionality works: met. Suite green, proselint reports on a
   Markdown buffer.
2. The access model is defined: not applicable, editor configuration
   with no access surface.
3. Permissions are implemented: not applicable, as above.
4. Audit logging is implemented: not applicable, as above.
5. Validation is complete: not applicable, no input crosses a boundary.
6. Errors are handled: not applicable, no new error path.
7. Testing is complete: met, see the testing evaluation.
8. Documentation exists: met for the two pages in this PR.
   docs/json.md still lists the late ale.vim as also setting the JSONC
   fixer, and the Vim ftplugin's comment says .vimrc sets
   g:ale_disable_lsp; both are outside this PR's files and are left for a
   follow-up.
9. The AI Completion Report has been produced: met, this section.

Closes #145
Refs #44

Co-Authored-By: AI Agent noreply@harleypig.com