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Vim lint check - only show message if there's an error

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Mar 15, 20261940 views
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Problem

I have this line in my , which means "when I save a .rb file, run it through " (the ruby interpreter's error checking). When I save that file, I always see output at the bottom of the screen, so I get used to it and start ignoring it. What I want is to only see output if there are errors. I can see…

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autocmd BufWritePost *.rb !ruby -c <afile>

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Fix for: Vim lint check - only show message if there's an error

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You should definitely look at Syntastic plugin. It automatically checks the syntax of the file in current buffer on save, supports many filetypes (ruby, python, php, etc out of the box) and does exactly what you need - it shows output only in case o…

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