When indenting with tabs, wrong symbol gets squiggly underline

[trevordixon]

As you can see in the screenshot, the wrong symbol is underlined. The word "template" should be underlined.

The reason for this is that jshint considers tabs 4 columns wide (https://github.com/jshint/jshint/issues/805), but the col parameter in Sublime's text_point funtion "is interpreted as the number of characters to advance past the beginning of the row."

Setting "indent": 1 in .jshintrc fixes the problem for me, but it would be better if this worked by default.

[victorporof]

Ok, so jshint prefs like "indent" should depend on the current buffer's indentation settings.

[trevordixon]

Yes, I think that's a good solution. If there's no .jshintrc indent option set, set it based on the buffer's indentation settings (1 for tabs or as many spaces as constitute an indent).

[zakdances]

+1. Every line being pointed to by Sublime-JSHint was wrong until I switched to spaces. It shouldn't prefer one over the other because they're both valid. Can this be fixed to correctly and automatically detect tabs?

[zakdances]

Any progress on this?

[albertosantini]

To underline the correct word (in my context):

...
            regions = []

            for err in errs:
                line_begin = view.text_point(int(err[1]) - 1, 0)
                line_region = view.line(line_begin)
                buf = view.substr(line_region)
                tab_length = len(re.findall("\t", buf))
                isSpacesIndentation = view.settings().get("translate_tabs_to_spaces")
                tab_size = 1
                if (not isSpacesIndentation):
                    tab_size = view.settings().get("tab_size")
                line = int(err[1]) - 1
                col = int(err[2]) - 1 - (tab_size * tab_length) + tab_length

                text_point = view.text_point(line, col)
                region = view.word(text_point)
                regions.append(region)
...

If you go to the error point using the palette, the code above, modified to insert it in the plugin, should work.

Anyway I have a problem with F4, because Sublime does not make the correct calc when it needs to set the cursor; weirdly in the bottom left the column is displayed correctly.

[kornelski]

When Sublime uses tabs adding "indent": 1 to .jshintrc fixes alignment of errors indeed. It would be nice if the plugin did that automatically.

[albertosantini]

I am sorry for the self promotion: https://sublime.wbond.net/packages/Build%20Next After my previous comment I developed the above plugin.