Syntastic support for the Pony language

March 25, 2017 ยท View on GitHub

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This is a single-purpose Vim plugin for Syntastic support, and which should be compatible (with no conflicts) with any more fully-featured plugins.

For syntax highlighting, you might try out either

  • jakwings' vim-pony which doesn't have a checker but provides syntax highlighting, or
  • David Leonard's pony-vim-syntax which provides an identical (for now) checker, named ponyc, plus syntax highlighting.

Checker setup

To enable this syntax checker, add it to your list of Pony checkers:

let g:syntastic_pony_checkers = ['currycomb']

To confirm Syntastic is doing the right thing you might call :SyntasticInfo, looking for something like this:

Syntastic version: 3.8.0-34 (Vim 800, Darwin, GUI)
Info for filetype: pony
Global mode: active
Filetype pony is active
The current file will be checked automatically
Available checker: currycomb
Currently enabled checker: currycomb

And if your ponyc is in an unusual location:

let g:syntastic_pony_ponyc_exe = '/path/to/your/ponyc'

Internals

Currently, the syntax checker runs ponyc --pass=expr in the parent directory, just like David Leonard's plugin does.

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