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nscaife / linter-chktex

An Atom Linter plugin for LaTeX, using chktex
https://atom.io/packages/linter-chktex
MIT License
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linter-chktex indicates wrong line numbers and breaks cursor navigation #8

Closed beingalink closed 9 years ago

beingalink commented 9 years ago

I'm not sure if this is a problem with linter or linter-chktex. The problem is that I get displayed wrong line numbers for issues linter-chktex found. The column number seems to be right. Also it seems like the inline dialogs break cursor navigation: When I put the cursor at some place where I want to edit text, the editing actually happens further right from the actual position of the cursor.

nscaife commented 9 years ago

Do you have any lines in your TeX file > 512 bytes? chktex doesn't handle these properly and causes it to report bad line and column numbers. chktex will actually tell you this directly if you run chktex filename.tex at a terminal.

I'm not able to reproduce the problem -- can you send me a gist with a sample TeX document that causes you the problem?

beingalink commented 9 years ago

Wow, you're quick. :) And you're right, I just used chktex in the terminal with this file and got: "chktex: WARNING -- ChkTeX does not handle lines over 1024 bytes correctly. Some errors and line numbers may be wrong in this file." So it's indeed not a bug in linter-chktex but a limitation of chktex. Which is quite sad since it means you cannot use it with unicode/utf-8. I'm using xelatex for that reason. Guess I'll have to wait for someone improving chktex. Thanks for your help!

beingalink commented 9 years ago

On a second thought, perhaps I misunderstood it. Does it mean that I just need to add line breaks?

nscaife commented 9 years ago

Line breaks will fix it. There's an option under Edit->Reflow Selection that will do this automatically!

beingalink commented 9 years ago

Thanks a lot! Didn't know this function. :) Linting works now almost perfect but I still sometimes get the cursor displacements so editing can become a little guesswork. No idea what the cause is. I'll disable the inline dialogs and see if it still happens.

beingalink commented 9 years ago

OK, seems like my files have broken text encoding. :( That has nothing to do with linting but if you know a tool to fix that, I'd appreciate it anyway. ;) Otherwise I think everything is said now and I'll leave it like that. Thanks again for your helpful answers.

Turgon-Aran-Gondolin commented 7 years ago

Same problem, can be solved by mannally break lines, but can't do so correctly via Reflow Selection, so is there a way to increase the "bytes" chktex can handle? (I noticed that it can be 512 bytes or 1024 bytes.)