Ale: running ALEFix on save

[dxu]

Hello! I am a new user of ale, I noticed the work done on #571, and have started trying to use it. I'm running into issues when trying to run it on save (which is being tackled by #570), but figured I might as well ask in case it is due to user error.

Here are my configs:

let g:ale_fixers = {}
let g:ale_fixers.javascript = [
\ 'prettier',
\ 'eslint',
\]
let g:ale_javascript_prettier_options = ' --stdin\ --parser\ flow\ --single-quote\ --trailing-comma\ all\ --no-bracket-spacing'

autocmd BufWrite *.js ALEFix

I'm noticing a few things:

1. I'm trying to set up a autocommand to run ALEFix on save, but for some reason when I save, the file will write, the checker will run, and then the buffer will update with the changes. As a result:
   a. vim complains that the buffer has not yet been saved when trying to quit
   b. if i very quickly quit before the buffer updates with the change, the fix won't actually occur (e.g, via :wq.

Is this due to some async feature of ale? I previously used neoformat to do something similar, for which this doesn't occur.

1. when specifying ale_fixers for javascript, if I change the order of eslint and prettier so that eslint comes before prettier, the javascript_prettier_options don't get applied.

2. If I don't specify ale_javascript_prettier_options, ALEFix runs into an error

Error detected while processing function ale#fix#Fix[21]..<SNR>213_RunFixer[6]..ale#handlers#prettier#Fix[1]..ale#Var:
line    3:
E716: Key not present in Dictionary: ale_javascript_prettier_options
E116: Invalid arguments for function getbufvar(str2nr(a:buffer), l:full_name, g:[l:full_name])
E15: Invalid expression: getbufvar(str2nr(a:buffer), l:full_name, g:[l:full_name])

Thank you for doing such amazing work!

[w0rp]

You can't accomplish this with a simple autocmd on BufWrite. I will add support for this eventually.

The jobs for fixing files run asynchronously, so eslint and prettier will stop executing _after_ the file has already been closed. I need to change the code so it can be used for writing changes back to the file on disk, even if the buffer is no longer open.

[w0rp]

I'll have to make a note to change ale#Var so it can look up buffer variables from a Dictionary which is saved for fixing files if the buffer is closed before fixing is completed.

[w0rp]

This is supported with an option now. See :help g:ale_fix_on_save.

[dxu]

wow, thank you for the incredibly quick turnaround!

[sdondley]

Not sure if this can be fixed but when I do a :wq in NeoVim I get these errors:

Error detected while processing function <SNR>99_NeoVimCallback[29]..<SNR>106_HandleExit:
line   13:
E484: Can't open file /var/folders/nc/1y1czqf96736xppxnnkmgkrc0000gn/T/nvimrSHvON/6/keyword_args.rb

[w0rp]

Please open a new issue with steps for repeating the bug.