Mastering Vim

Plugin spotlight – Syntastic

Syntastic is the go-to plugin when it comes to syntax checking. It supports over 100 languages (and can be extended with smaller syntax checker plugins). Syntastic is available from https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic.

If you're using vim-plug, you can install Syntastic by adding Plug 'vim-syntastic/syntastic' to your .vimrc file and running :w | source $MYVIMRC | PlugInstall.

Syntastic does not provide newbie-friendly defaults, so you may want to have the following in your .vimrc file:

set statusline+=%#warningmsg#set statusline+=%{SyntasticStatuslineFlag()}set statusline+=%*let g:syntastic_always_populate_loc_list = 1let g:syntastic_auto_loc_list = 1let g:syntastic_check_on_open = 1let g:syntastic_check_on_wq ...