Nvim Buf Lint

Goals 🏃

• Are you a developer that's actively working with Protobuf?
• Are you using buf cli to simplify your workflow with Protobuf?
• AND, are you a neovim user?

Then, this plugin is a perfect addition to your neovim experience when dealing with Google's Protobuf! This plugin, while simple, provides a way for buf cli to interact with vim.diagnostic framework, enriching your development experience in dealing with Protobuf by providing linting error messages!.

The Idea Behind This Plugin

• I just noticed that buf lint has an option --error-format which can spit out JSON formatted linting errors! 🤔
• I thought to myself, well this can work well with Neovim diagnostic framework then. And I immediately started prototyping this plugin, and completed a simple linter integration on that day.
• If there are any suggestions, you're welcome to put up issues / pull requests! I'm really new to neovim plugin development at the moment, so I will appreciate any help you guys give to by contributing to this project. 🙇

Installation 📦

• Requires Neovim > 0.6.0 (which was the time vim.diagnostic framework was introduced)
• Packer

require("packer").startup(function(use)
    use({ "yeyee2901/nvim-buf-lint" })
end)

Setup 🔧

require("nvim-buf-lint").init()

You may also pass a table of options.

require("nvim-buf-lint").init{
    -- some options ...
}

The init() function accepts these option parameters:

• exe_path : The full path to buf executable (defaults to "buf", or in otherwords system wide installation taken from your $PATH)

Usage 🔎

• Go to any of your Protobuf project.
• Open neovim from the root directory of the project (the root directory is the directory containing buf.yaml file)
• Go to any of your proto files
• Run lua require("nvim-buf-lint").lint() or you can run the provided user command :BufLintCurrentBuffer

Current Limitations

• The linter will only run on command invocation

Roadmap 🚀

• ✅ Simple linting
•  Toggle lint on save option
•  Integrate with quickfix
•  Inject diagnostic error message in all buffer (?)
•  Integrate with telescope.nvim !