JavaScript: jshint

Maintainer: Martin Grenfell [email protected]

JSHint is a tool to detect errors and potential problems in JavaScript files. See the project's page for details.

Note:

If you're checking files containing tab characters, then JSHint's idea of tabstop must match Vim's tabstop, otherwise syntastic will highlight the errors at shifted positions. By default JSHint's tabstop is 4, while Vim's default tabstop is 8.

In order to change JSHint's tabstop you have to change its indent config option. One way to do that is to put it in a file named .jshintrc, in a JSON structure. For example:

{
    "indent": 8
}

See JSHint documentation for details.

Please note however that setting indent also triggers the indentation checks. If that is undesirable, your only option is to leave JSHint's tabstop alone, and change Vim's tabstop to 4. In order to change Vim's tabstop, you can add this to your vimrc:

set tabstop = 4