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Re: What is the format that linters are expected to produce
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Benno Schulenberg |
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Re: What is the format that linters are expected to produce |
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Thu, 17 Dec 2020 09:41:38 +0100 |
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Op 15-12-2020 om 02:52 schreef Philip White:
> I'm trying to provide syntax highlight for a small language I have. I
> would like to also provide a formatter and a linter. The formatter I
> have successfully created, but I can't find any type of documentation
> for what a linter is expected to do. My guess was that it would just
> need to spit out some lines like
>
> filename:10:10 some error
Almost. A colon is missing after the second number.
> But setting the linter to
>
> linter echo filename:10:10
>
> still report 0 linter items.
It's not enough. Any linter will also produce a message.
The clearest format is:
filename:11,22: some message
> Is there documentation somewhere for the expected behavior of a linter.
It is not documented, except in the source:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nano.git/tree/src/text.c?id=0f334f8ee4#n2669
Benno
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