Re: [Nano-devel] Linter support at last

[Chris Allegretta]

On 2/24/14, Chris Allegretta <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This morning I committed support for linters, it requires that your
> installation supports spell checking and color.  See nanorc(5) for more
> details.  The current implementation attempts to cleverly take over the
> spelling function if you've defined a linter, which I assume may be
> controversial to some.
>
> For linters like splint which will also check files included with your
> source code, if possible nano will offer to open that file in a new
> buffer so it can show you the lints.  I'm planning to make this possible
> to set in your local nanorc instead of having to edit the syntax files
> where they are installed by adding a new syntax extend directive,
> hopefully this will be done within the next 2 weeks.

To resurrect the original message in this thread, you can now
"extendsyntax <name> linter <lint cmd> <args>" in your .nanorc

This as well as Benno's recent fixes can be found at:
http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/test/nano-2.3.3pre1.tar.gz