How to make asyncrun use Elixir `exunit` compiler to display failures like in Dispatch?

[jmgarnier]

First, I wanted to say thank you for work. I have the feeling asyncrun will be a plugin I will use a lot. Kudos for neovim support 😄 .

I have read your FAQ about how to process the content in quickfix but I am not sure how to tell asyncrun to use the exunit compiler.

Screenshot:

See https://github.com/elixir-lang/vim-elixir/issues/76 explains how it was fixed with vim-test + Dispatch.

a screenshot with Dispatch:

I am also wondering how Tim Pope does to have some syntax highlighting in color here but that's for another issue

[skywind3000]

Multi-line error output is just broken in vim, I agree that.

Not familiar with elixir, so it takes me time to understand what the problem is . After comparing two screenshots, it seems that exunit is using the local value of errorformat, instead of global value.

asyncrun uses caddexpr to populate the quickfix list. caddexpr only works with global value of errorformat, but exunit may set the local value of errorformat instead of global value.

why can't caddexpr use local errorformat value ? see https://github.com/vim/vim/issues/569

currently, there is nothing I can do to fix the behavior of caddexpr , but you can change your global errorformat settings by:

:set &g:errorformat = &l:errorformat

Rust/Cargo also get the same problem, which has been disucssed and solved here: https://github.com/skywind3000/asyncrun.vim/issues/16

[skywind3000]

You can see the syntax highlight if the error output of exunit is correctly matched by errorformat in quickfix window:

![asyncrun-highlight]

See line 4-6 in quickfix window

btw, Cargo + Rustc can change the output format from multi-line mode to single line mode (just like gcc), which is more friendly to vim.