vim-MakeGreen

This adds more jump and color configuration to the original vim-makegreen plugin.

Unfortunately, I copied it into my configuration and it grew and grew until I though that it is too good to be private. I copied it back and so this is kind of a rewrite without much history.

What it does is essentially the following:

• Execute the compiler without jumping (make!)
• Assemble info about the errors in the quickfix buffer
• Display a colored bar and jump to an error location

There is one public function that takes flags to influence its behavior, and further arguments to the compiler ($* in makeprg).

MakeGreen(<flags>, <compiler_args>)

Flags

Combine any of the flags in this section into a string and pass it as first argument to MakeGreen().

• C suppress context (non-error) lines in the quickfix buffer
• f jump to the first error instead of the nearest error (eg: unittest versus compilation). By default the error in the current buffer that is the nearest to the cursor position will be jumped to.
• J do not jump at all and do not open a new tab unless explicitly requested (execute tests from the System-Under-Test without opening the test file)
• m always use the main bar colors, never the different buffer bars. In combination with J, for example, this allows you to use the different-buffer bars exclusively as a jump notification.

Further flags concern the opening of a new tab. The default behavior is useful if you use quickfix tabs as special throwaway tabs: A new tab will be opened if the target error is in another buffer and the current tab does not have a quickfix window open.

• t always open on a new tab in case of errors and no quickfix window is open
• T never open another tab; always jump inside the current window
• s open a split with the origin buffer when opening a new tab
• v open a vsplit with the origin buffer when opening a new tab

The Bar

The bar will be displayed in diverse colors:

• green: no error
• red/white: one error in the current file
• red/yellow: further errors -- possibly in different files
• magenta/white: one error in a different file
• magenta/yellow: multiple errors, target error in a different file

You can override these default colors from your configuration if you define the following highlight-groups:

MakeGreenNoErrorBar
MakeGreenOneErrorBar
MakeGreenMultipleErrorBar
MakeGreenDifferentBufferOneErrorBar
MakeGreenDifferentBufferMultipleErrorBar

Examples

A mapping to execute the compiler on the current file and suppress context:

nnoremap <buffer> <F7> :call MakeGreen('C', '%')<CR>

A mapping to execute the compiler for the whole project, pass further flags to the compiler, and always open the first error in a new tab:

nnoremap <buffer> <S-F7> :call MakeGreen('tf', '--stop')<CR>