Conflicts with neomake

[jpfender]

I don't know how much of this can be adressed on the vim-qf side, but there are some issues when vim-qf and neomake are used together.

If vim-qf is used out of the box without any configuration, the config option let g:neomake_open_list has no effect on the loclist opened by neomake regardless of what value it is set to. It appears that the behaviour of the loclist is overwritten by vim-qf.

If I set let g:qf_auto_open_loclist = 0, this does not prevent neomake from opening a loclist as you would expect, but it does allow neomake to bypass vim-qf for the loclist settings, meaning neomake_open_list settings now take effect.

However, some vim-qf settings and function calls, such as qf_window_bottom or qf_loc_toggle_stay still retain control over the neomake loclist.

So in effect, the communication between vim-qf and neomake does not work as one would intuitively expect; some, but not all of the settings do not transfer between the two.

[romainl]

There's currently no attempt on either side to communicate with the other plugin. That would be a nightmare without a proper plugin API.

Anyway, I'll take a look at this issue ASAP.

[romainl]

I've installed Neomake but now I'd like to see your settings for both Neomake and vim-qf in order to reproduce your context as faithfully as possible.

[jpfender]

The following settings result in neomake opening the loclist on write, regardless of the fact that auto-opening the loclist is disabled in vim-qf. auto_resize also doesn't work, but qf_loc_toggle_stay does.

" neomake settings
autocmd! BufWritePost * Neomake
let g:neomake_open_list = 2

" vim-qf settings
nmap <F6> <Plug>(qf_loc_toggle_stay)
let g:qf_auto_open_loclist = 0
let g:qf_auto_resize = 1

Conversely, if you try the following settings:

" neomake settings
autocmd! BufWritePost * Neomake
let g:neomake_open_list = 0

" vim-qf settings
nmap <F6> <Plug>(qf_loc_toggle_stay)
let g:qf_auto_open_loclist = 1
let g:qf_auto_resize = 1

The loclist still gets opened on write, even though neomake_open_list is disabled. The loclist opened this way is fully controlled by vim-qf, meaning that auto_resize works, but the cursor will always automatically jump to the loclist, even if we set neomake_open_list = 2.

[romainl]

It looks like both plugins have overlapping features, which makes sense because both plugins are heavily quickfix-oriented. I can see three directions to take:

1. Let the user try to make the two plugins work together by finding the right options combo.
2. Remove/disable the features in vim-qf that overlap with those in Neomake.
3. Remove/disable the features in Neomake that overlap with those in vim-qf.

I will certainly not take direction #2 and I doubt Neomake's author will take direction #3 so it looks like we are left with direction #1.

I think I will simply add a disclaimer in README.md.

Sorry, but this is a WONTFIX issue.

[jpfender]

Yes, that's fair enough. I had already taken direction 1 by myself, I mainly wanted to make sure I wasn't missing an obvious solution to the problem. Thank you for looking into this!

[blueyed]

It seems like the annoying part with g:qf_auto_open_loclist is that it does not jump back to the previous window after all? (which vim-qf could add as a feature)
See neomake/neomake#1097 (comment) for settings that work with Neomake.