new function -> get_running_count()

[daUnknownCoder]

Checks number of current linters

[mfussenegger]

Thanks, but you can just use #require("lint").get_running().

[daUnknownCoder]

Thanks, but you can just use #require("lint").get_running().

i was struggling to use this:

          {
            function()
              local lint_progress = function()
                local linters = require("lint").get_running()
                if #linters == 0 then
                  return "󰦕 Linting completed"
                end
                return "󱉶 Linting with '" .. table.concat(linters, ", ") .. "' in progress"
              end
              return lint_progress()
            end,
          },

i m using lualine but, it gives me <icon> Linting completed for a non linted file too, like if i do nvim ifregre.reger it still gives me linting completed but there is no linting happening... which is why i was fiddling with that functions... can you help me with that?

[mfussenegger]

You can specify the buffer number for which to get the running linters and use 0 for current buffer - e.g.: require("lint").get_running(0)

[daUnknownCoder]

require("lint").get_running(0)

I mean that when I use get_running, if the current buffer's filetype has no linter installed, there should be no linter found instead of linting completed as per #linters==0, I want to have a get a if elseif else, like

if #linters==none
     return "No linters found"
elseif #linters==0
     return "Linting completed"
else #linters>0
     return "Linting in progress"

Can I get something like that?

[mfussenegger]

The problem with that is that users can call try_lint without having configured the linter. nvim-lint doesn't have the complete information over which linters could be triggered and how.

Because of that it's up to users to decide how & what information to display exactly. get_running only displays the number of running linters, not configured linters. Having a get_running_linter_count() method that returns the configured linters would be misleading, and could be incorrect. For example I have a require("lint").try_lint("ruff") call in a BufWritePost autocmd, and ruff is not in the linters_by_ft table

[daUnknownCoder]

so from what i understand, there's no way to achieve no linters found like i just wanna check the ft and if it does not have a linter or if the linter is not installed