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aste123
aste123

Reputation: 1242

Unable to get any linting done in github's atom editor (using Linter + Linter Pylint)

Text Editor: Atom v 0.140.0

Installed version of Linter: 0.7.3
Installed version of Linter Pylint: 0.1.5
Version of Atom: 0.140.0
Running on Linux Mint 16
Pylint version: pylint 0.26.0, 
astng 0.24.1, common 0.59.1
Python 2.7.5+ (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:37:08) 
[GCC 4.8.1]

Issue: Both the packages (linter and linter pylint) are installed and enabled but no linting is being done in case of errors. For example priont "asdf" doesn't show any kind of error message.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6688

Answers (2)

Ben Greenawald
Ben Greenawald

Reputation: 41

I had this same problem on Windows 8 but was able to fix it by editing the config.cson file in Atom. After you've downloaded your linters, you need to first get the full path (file location) for the linter. Then, go into the config.cson file and you should see all the linters you've downloaded somewhere in the file. For example, I was trying to get pylint to work. In the config file there should be quotations containing your specific linter somewhere in the file, for example, mine has a line of code that just read:

"linter-pylint": {}

Delete the brackets, and in the line under the name of your linter (keep the colon and it should auto indent the next line) add "path: " and then the full path name of your linter. So I changed my pylint to

"linter-pylint":
  path: "C:Users/Student/.atom/packages/linter-pylint"

then I restarted Atom and the linter was working just fine. The same method worked for the C++ linter clang.

Note: you also might need to do the same thing for the generic linter itself; i.e. your file might contain a line that just says

"linter": {}

Upvotes: 4

gmm
gmm

Reputation: 1022

I dont know if you ever solved this, or you are still interested, but I ran into the same problem recently and solved it by downgrading the linter version.

Just run apm install [email protected]

There was an issue opened at the github page: https://github.com/atom-community/linter/issues/815

Upvotes: 1

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