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Mastering Vim
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Mastering Vim

by Ruslan Osipov
November 2018
Beginner
330 pages
7h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Plugin spotlight – ALE

Asynchronous Lint Engine (ALE) is a more recent player on the field, but it's been getting nearly as much traction as Syntastic has. Its primary selling point is that ALE displays lint errors as you type, and it runs the linters asynchronously. ALE is available from GitHub at https://github.com/w0rp/ale.

If you're using vim-plug, you can install ALE by adding Plug 'w0rp/ale' to your .vimrc file and running :w | source $MYVIMRC | PlugInstall. ALE requires Vim 8+ or Neovim for asynchronous calls to work.

It's ready to be used out of the box, and the output looks very similar to Syntastic. Here's a screenshot of a file with ALE enabled (I've opened the location window using :lopen):

You can see the line with an error ...

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