I'm trying to configure the vim Ale plugin to use Tidy to lint HTML code.
I added to my .vimrc file:
let g:ale_linters = {
\ 'css': ['csslint'],
\ 'html': ['tidy'],
\ 'javascript': ['eslint'],
\ 'php': [''],
\ 'python': ['flake8'],
\}
I got the linters working for CSS, JavaScript, and Python, but not HTML.
:ALEInfo outputs:
Current Filetype: html
Available Linters: ['alex', 'fecs', 'htmlhint', 'proselint', 'stylelint', 'tidy', 'writegood']
Linter Aliases: 'writegood' -> ['write-good']
Enabled Linters: ['tidy']
. . . at the end of the information . . .
Command History: (executable check - success) tidy
It looks like the Tidy linter is available and configured, but I can't get it to work. The html files seem to have no linting at all.
I am able to run Tidy successfully in the terminal:
> tidy test.html
line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 1 column 1 - Warning: plain text isn't allowed in <head> elements
line 1 column 2 - Warning: discarding unexpected <html>
line 2 column 5 - Warning: <body> unexpected or duplicate quote mark
line 2 column 5 - Warning: discarding unexpected <body>
line 4 column 7 - Error: <bdy> is not recognized!
line 4 column 7 - Warning: discarding unexpected <bdy>
line 1 column 1 - Warning: inserting missing 'title' element
line 3 column 7 - Warning: trimming empty <p>
Info: Document content looks like HTML 3.2
8 warnings, 1 error were found!
How can I get Tidy to work with Ale in vim?
You also need to tell
vimwhere to find the tidy executable, e.g.,tidyon Linux, ortidy.exeon Windows.In my case, I added this to my
vimrc:In vim, to get Ale help for tidy:
:h ale-html-tidy