Linting with SublimeLinter

Linting is a term for flagging suspicious and non-portable constructs, likely to be bugs in any written language. SublimeLinter is a plugin that supports linting and has the following linters built in:

• C/C++: This lints via cppcheck

• CoffeeScript: This lints via coffee –s –l

• CSS: This lints via built-in csslint

• Haml: This checks syntax via haml –c

• HTML: This lints via tidy

• Java: This lints via javac –Xlint

• JavaScript: This lints via built in jshint, jslint, or gjslint (if installed)

• Lua: This checks syntax via luac

• Objective-J: This lints via built in capp_lint

• Perl: This lints via Perl::Critic or syntax and deprecation check via perl-c

• PHP: This checks syntax via php –l

• Puppet: This checks syntax via puppet parser validate

• Python: This is a native, moderately-complete lint

• Ruby: This checks syntax via ruby –wc

• XML: This lints via xmllint

Installing SublimeLinter

We can install this plugin by using the Package Control that we installed earlier. Let's...