Linting of injected langauges

[magnuslarsen]

I've been thinking for a while on how to implement "linting of injected languages" using the existing code-base as-is, and (in theory anyway) it's not too difficult, I would just like to bring it up for a discussing before actually trying to implement it

conform.nvim has the same feature, but for formatting, and we can just re-use the core logic here (getting the injected languages via treesitter). I see it sort of like this:

1. Get the injected languages, and for each:
2. Create a new hidden-scratch buffer, set ft to injected.language
3. Set said scratch-buffer's content to injected.content (without additional new lines, see below)
4. Call nvim_buf_call(scatch_bufnr, M.lint()) on the scratch-buffer
5. Get all the diagnostics for scratch_bufnr (if LSP's are setup for the target language, these will also be picked up - feature?)
6. Update the diagnostic' line_num to include the offset from the main buffer for each diagnostic (see below)
7. vim.diagnostics.set() the diagnostics in the main buffer
8. Sync/delete hidden buffers - I need to test what is fastest here

I know of otter.nvim which does something similar, but for a limited set of languages, and only includes LSP features (which I'm not interested in). Otter.nvim creates a hidden buffer, but using newlines as offset, which I personally do not like, because some linters requires the first line to be a shebang (see shellcheck as an example), which is impossible to satisfy using the newline-approach

Instead, I'd suggest making a new buffer without newlines, but instead bump the lnum of the diagnostic itself afterwards, so it matches in the main buffer (i.e. if the injected block starts a line 5 in the main buffer, bump the lnum of the diagnostic by 4 (offset - 1). This makes the shellcheck example possible to "fix"

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Since nvim-lint's cmd-field can only return a path to an external command (or a function that returns said command), above requires a new field, which can take a pure-lua function\ conform.nvim has command-field which is equivalent to nvim-lint's cmd field, but they also have a format-field, which accepts said pure-lua function (they also have a condition-field, which I think could also be useful here)

(having a linter field (pure-lua) would also allow new linter tools, for-example these two from null-ls, and this one I wrote, just before switching to nvim-lint/conform.nvim)

This bit is what is holding me back from writing the injected-linter; I'm not too comfortable adding logic to the core-logic :-)

[mfussenegger]

Relates a bit to https://github.com/mfussenegger/nvim-lint/issues/235

I'd first like to see if there's more interest in this, before considering it.

[JeanMertz]

It does appear there's a desire for this feature to be implemented. It currently has the highest number of votes.

[pete3n]

This would be awesome for languages like Nix where I often end up injecting Lua or shell scripts with unchecked '' ''; blocks.