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# Contributing to ALE
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1. [Guidelines](#guidelines)
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2. [Creating Pull Requests](#pull-requests)
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3. [Creating Pull Requests](#compiling)
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<a name="guidelines"></a>
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# 1. Guidelines
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Have fun, and work on whatever floats your boat. Take It Easy :tm:.
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<a name="pull-requests"></a>
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# 2. Creating Pull Requests
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For code you write, make sure to credit yourself at the top of files you add, and probably those you modify. You can write
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some comments at the top of your VIM files.
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```vim
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" Author: John Smith <john.smith@gmail.com>
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" Description: This file adds support for awesomelinter to the best language ever.
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```
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If you want to credit multiple authors, you can comma separate them.
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```vim
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" Author: John Smith <john.smith@gmail.com>, Jane Doe <https://jane-doe.info>
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```
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# 2.1. Adding a New Linter
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If you add a new linter, look for existing handlers first in the [handlers.vim](plugin/ale/handlers.vim) file. One of the handlers
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there may already be able to handle your lines of output. If you find that your new linter replicates an existing error handler,
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consider pulling it up into the [handlers.vim](plugin/ale/handlers.vim) file, and use the generic handler in both places.
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When you add a linter, make sure the language for the linter and the linter itself are present in the table in the
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[README.md](README.md) file and in the Vim [help file](doc/ale.txt). The programs and linters are sorted alphabetically in the
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table and list.
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# 2.2. Adding New Options
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If you add new options to the plugin, make sure to document those new options in the [README.md](README.md) file, and also
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in the [help file](doc/ale.txt). Follow the format of other options in each. Global options should appear in the README
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file, and in the relevant section in the help file, and options specific to a particular linter should go in the section
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for that linter.
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<a name="compiling"></a>
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# 3. Compiling the Windows stdin wrapper
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To compile the stdin wrapper program for Windows, when updating the D program, you will need to compile the program with
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[LDC](https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc) in release mode. Download and install the Community edition of Visual Studio
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from [the Visual Studio website](https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/) first before installing LDC. LDC typically comes in
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a ZIP you can just extract somewhere.
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Make sure to compile with the 32-bit architecture flag, otherwise the EXE will not run on 32-bit machines.
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```
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ldc2 -m32 -Oz -release stdin_wrapper.d -of=stdin-wrapper.exe
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```
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