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Practical Vim
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Practical Vim

by Drew Neil
October 2012
346 pages
7h 40m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Tip 107Customize the External Compiler

Vim’s :make command isn’t limited to calling the external make program; it can execute any compilers available on your machine. (Note that Vim’s definition of “compiler” is looser than what you may be used to; see ‘:compiler’ and ‘:make’ Are Not Just for Compiled Languages.) In this tip, we’ll set up the :make command so that it passes a JavaScript file through JSLint and then uses the output to populate the quickfix list.

First, we’ll configure Vim so that running :make calls nodelint,[30] a command-line interface to JSLint.[31] It depends on Node.js and can be installed using NPM simply by running this:[32]

=> 
$ npm install nodelint -g

As a test case, we’ll use this JavaScript implementation ...

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