[colug-432] syntastic for vim

[Zach Villers]

Have you tried to reproduce this in graphical vim/vim gui/gvim ?

Sorry - OSX is foreign to me.

Vimawesome website may be of some help as well as Reddit.com/r/vim

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 11:24 PM Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I’ve been trying to come up with ways to configure vim to do automatic
> syntax checking, sort of like what ‘visudo’ does.  I found syntastic[1],
> but I’m having a bit of a hard time with it.  Other than really, really
> basic stuff like set ts=4 or whatever, I've never tried to customize vim.
>
> I got Syntastic working, sort of, but it seems to be taking more effort
> than it should.  For example, one of the filetypes I’m targeting is yaml.
> I ended up having to explicitly tell Syntastic to use a yaml checker, like
> so:
>
> let g:syntastic_yaml_checkers = ['yamlxs']
>
> But the worse issue is that I can't get it to seem to draw properly on the
> screen[2].  (I know what the yaml syntax issue is, I created it
> intentionally.)  vim seems to be able to draw the status at the bottom
> normally otherwise.  The bad drawing seems to be an issue no matter the
> (iTerm on OSX) terminal window size, but if I resize the window enough, it
> seems to straighten out at least temporarily.  The only other customization
> I have for vim is the pathogen prereq.  I'm using the syntastic defaults
> otherwise[3].  The way it is handling screen drawing is even worse when you
> try to quit[4], because there does not seem to be any way to recover or
> continue editing - you're just stuck and have to quit out of vim
> regardless.  I can't get that yellow error message to move from the top.
>
> This doesn't seem to be a specific issue with vim on OSX.  I copied all
> the vim configuration stuff to a remote linux host and it is behaving the
> same way.  My term type is xterm-256color if that matters?  I also tried it
> in a Linux VM console (not via ssh) - same weird not drawing in the right
> place behavior.
>
> I'm trying to do this not only for myself, but trying to put something
> together for my team of *NIX engineers who know next to nothing about
> Puppet, yaml, etc.  For now, they'll only be modifying hiera data in yaml,
> but I'd like the solution to be flexible enough to extend to linting puppet
> pp files, etc later.
>
> Is anyone using Syntastic and have an idea of what might be wrong?  Is
> there a better solution?  I don't really want one-offs like [5], that's far
> too brittle.
>
> thanks!
>
> [1] https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic
> [2]
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/z4lb7ywg4b0ui6y/Screen%20Shot%202016-06-02%20at%2021.47.18.png?dl=0
> [3] https://gist.github.com/rjhornsby/80a6dcf3808b857793ca8979091796c9
> [4]
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/spp49830krhmwdr/Screen%20Shot%202016-06-02%20at%2021.50.23.png?dl=0
> [5]
> http://mattparkes.net/automatically-lint-yaml-files-after-editing-them-with-vivim/
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