Feature proposal: drop quickfix feedback

[mjacobus]

Hey folks!
First of all thank you for this awesome plugin. It helps me a lot!

Secondly, I would like to make a change proposal:

Instead of using the quickfix to display the errors, the errors could be displayed like in syntastic plugin:

1. When the cursor is on a line containing an error, the error message is echoed in the command
   window.

The problem with the quickfix is that when we are using splits it is hard to read code or the QA errors. So the syntastic approach is much less invasive, IMHO.

Of course, probably some people find the quickfix better, so perhaps it could be optional. I would love to work on that, if you find that interesting, but I would have first to learn how to be a vim-script ninja.

Cheers!

[joonty]

Hi @mjacobus,

Sorry for the long delay in getting back to you. It's just me maintaining this plugin at the moment, and I've pretty much taken a break from OSS development for the last year! I also don't really use PHP much any more, which makes it doubly hard to keep this plugin up-to-date. Fortunately, there are plenty of people who are contributing to it.

I agree with your idea of making it optional as to whether you want to use quickfix or the syntastic approach. But considering the above, I don't think I'd have time to develop it - if you're still interested in putting the time in then a PR would be very welcome, and I'd be more than happy to test it.

Thanks

[mjacobus]

Hy @joonty

Thank you for your response. Yeah, I get it, it is not easy to maintain a Open Source project.
I think I did try to understand the code and come up with a PR, but my vimL skills are terrible.

If I find the time to get deeper to the point I can contribute with that PR you will see it here. ;)

Thank you so much for the very fine job you've done with this plugin =)

[wildtron]

@joonty Any plans with this? :D

[joonty]

Hi @wildtron, probably not to be honest, for the reasons I mentioned in my first response. I'm focusing most of my energy on Vdebug, and even that's not getting much attention! As I say, I'm happy to accept pull requests, though.