ALE

Link:

https://github.com/dense-analysis/ale

Author:

w0rp

ALE (Asynchronous Lint Engine) is a Vim plugin to asynchronously check syntax and fix files, with Language Server Protocol (LSP) support.

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Notes

  • To use ALE, you have to install your linting tool(s) in your system (eg. flake8 for Python, golint for Go, eslint for JavaScript...) and install the plugin itself. Depending on the filetype that you're editing ALE will detect the correct formatter (or several of them if present) and display the diagnostics as you work in the file.

  • ALE supports most common programming languages and linters, however you can also configure it to use a custom one if you need.

  • The plugin checks for diagnostics using the linting tool in an asynchronous manner, that means that your editor will not freeze from time to time while this happens.

Configuration

ALE doesn't have any incompatibility with Vem, so you can install and configure it according to the official documentation.

Some of the available configuration options that you can set in your vemrc file are:

" If you want to use ALE only for linting,
" you can explicitly disable LSP tools
let g:ale_disable_lsp = 0

" Use different highlighting to point out problems
let g:ale_set_highlights = 1

" Use the sign column (far left) to point out problems
let g:ale_set_signs = 1

" Symbols to use if g:ale_set_signs is enabled
let g:ale_sign_error = ' X'
let g:ale_sign_warning = ' !'