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@ -15,6 +15,73 @@ In other words, this plugin allows you to lint while you type.
and is still in rapid development. Documentation and stable APIs will
follow later.
## Supported Languages and Tools
This plugin supports the following languages and tools. All available
tools will be run in combination, so they can be complementary.
<!--
Keep the table rows sorted alphabetically by the language name,
and the tools in the tools column sorted alphabetically by the tool
name. That seems to be the fairest way to arrange this table.
-->
| Language | Tools |
| -------- | ----- |
| Bash | [-n flag](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-set) |
| Bourne Shell | [-n flag](http://linux.die.net/man/1/sh) |
| C | [gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org/) |
| D | [dmd](https://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html)^ |
| Fortran | [gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org/) |
| Haskell | [ghc](https://www.haskell.org/ghc/)^ |
| JavaScript | [eslint](http://eslint.org/), [jscs](http://jscs.info/), [jshint](http://jshint.com/) |
| Python | [flake8](http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/) |
| Ruby | [rubocop](https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop) |
*^ Supported only on Unix machines via a wrapper script.*
If you would like to see support for more languages and tools, please
[create an issue](https://github.com/w0rp/ale/issues)
or [create a pull request](https://github.com/w0rp/ale/pulls).
If your tool can read from stdin or you have code to suggest which is good,
support can be happily added for more tools.
## Usage
Once this plugin is installed, while editing your files in supported
languages and tools which have been correctly installed,
this plugin will send the contents of your text buffers to a variety of
programs for checking the syntax and semantics of your programs. By default,
linters will be re-run in the background to check your syntax when you open
new buffers or as you make edits to your files.
This plugin offers a variety of global flags for turning options on or off,
all of which are given defaults and described in the [flags](plugin/ale/aaflags.vim)
file. Linting on open, setting of signs, populating the loclist, and so forth may
all be configured as desired.
### Selecting Particular Linters
By default, all available tools for all supported languages will be run.
If you want to only select a subset of the tools, simply create a
`g:ale_linters` dictionary in your vimrc file mapping filetypes
to lists of linters to run.
```vim
let g:ale_linters = {
\ 'javascript': ['eslint'],
\}
```
For all languages unspecified in the dictionary, all possible linters will
be run for those languages, just as when the dictionary is not defined.
Running many linters should not typically obstruct editing in Vim,
as they will all be executed in separate processes simultaneously.
This plugin will look for linters in the [`ale_linters`](ale_linters) directory.
Each directory within corresponds to a particular filetype in Vim, and each file
in each directory corresponds to the name of a particular linter.
## Installation
To install this plugin, you should use one of the following methods.
@ -46,7 +113,7 @@ Plugin 'https://github.com/w0rp/ale.git'
See the Vundle documentation for more information.
### Installation manually
### Manual Installation
For installation without a package manager, you can clone this git repository
into a bundle directory as with pathogen, and add the repository to your
@ -70,34 +137,3 @@ filetype plugin on
Because the author of this plugin is a weird nerd, this is his preferred
installation method.
## Supported Languages and Tools
This plugin supports the following languages and tools. All available
tools will be run in combination, so they can be complementary.
<!--
Keep the table rows sorted alphabetically by the language name,
and the tools in the tools column sorted alphabetically by the tool
name. That seems to be the fairest way to arrange this table.
-->
| Language | Tools |
| -------- | ----- |
| Bash | [-n flag](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html#index-set) |
| Bourne Shell | [-n flag](http://linux.die.net/man/1/sh) |
| C | [gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org/) |
| D | [dmd](https://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html)^ |
| Fortran | [gcc](https://gcc.gnu.org/) |
| Haskell | [ghc](https://www.haskell.org/ghc/)^ |
| JavaScript | [eslint](http://eslint.org/), [jscs](http://jscs.info/), [jshint](http://jshint.com/) |
| Python | [flake8](http://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/) |
| Ruby | [rubocop](https://github.com/bbatsov/rubocop) |
*^ Supported only on Unix machines via a wrapper script.*
If you would like to see support for more languages and tools, please
[create an issue](https://github.com/w0rp/ale/issues)
or [create a pull request](https://github.com/w0rp/ale/pulls).
If your tool can read from stdin or you have code to suggest which is good,
support can be happily added for more tools.