This is an sbt plugin that generates a quickfix file that can be used with Vim.
Inspired by Alois Cochard's blog post on setting up quickfix using a bash wrapper around sbt..
Build and install the project
git clone git@github.com:kalmanb/sbt-quickfix.git
cd sbt-quickfix
sbt
> publishLocal
Add this to your ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins/plugins.sbt:
addSbtPlugin("com.dscleaver.sbt" % "sbt-quickfix" % "0.4.2")
Note: this plugin was built for sbt 0.13 use version 0.3.1 for sbt 0.12
If your vim is setup to use Pathogen, then the vim-sbt plugin can be installed with this command:
sbt install-vim-plugin
This command will replace the plugin files whenever it is run, so it is recommended when upgrading versions of the plugin.
After a compile or test, assuming there was an error, a quickfix file will be created that Vim can use.
If your copy of Vim was compiled with +clientserver and you've enabled the vim-enable-server flag in your SBT project (default is true), then this plugin will automatically load the quickfix file into Vim once it's been created.
If you don't have +clientserver enabled in Vim, or you have disabled the vim-enable-server feature of the plugin, then you can use a Vim mapping to load the file. By default the mapping is <leader>ff, but you can change this if you wish.
By default the plugin will install to ~/.vim/bundle. This plugin base directory can be added to your global config (e.g. ~/.sbt/0.13/global.sbt) as follows:
QuickFixKeys.pluginBaseDirectory := file("intended/directory")
The initial version of this plugin required that you add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc:
set errorformat=%E\ %#[error]\ %#%f:%l:\ %m,%-Z\ %#[error]\ %p^,%-C\ %#[error]\ %m
set errorformat+=,%W\ %#[warn]\ %#%f:%l:\ %m,%-Z\ %#[warn]\ %p^,%-C\ %#[warn]\ %m
set errorformat+=,%-G%.%#
noremap <silent> <Leader>ff :cf target/quickfix/sbt.quickfix<CR>
noremap <silent> <Leader>fn :cn<CR>
These lines should be removed from `~/.vimrc'
Items that I want to look into in the future:
- Possibly reformat log output for easier consumption
- Add ctags generation possibly turning this into a full vim plugin
- Allow vim server name to be overridden by system property