decoding vim syntastic symbols in `spacevim`

Question

I hate asking a question like this, but am still rather new to vim and the Spacevim variant that I am using.

I am working in python and was trying to understand the different symbols that vim-syntastic is presenting the the leftmost column. I have included a picture below. There are symbols like _3, !, !1, and I can't seem to find a guide to these symbols. The warning and error signs are intuitive enough, but not these different colored indicators.

I tried to do :help syntastic but that did not show anything. I got an indication E149: no help for syntastic. I also googled around but could not find a description for these symbols in the github repo for syntastic, or in the spacevim documentation. I also found the syntastic help documentation on the github repo, but the error signs section does not explain any default settings, etc. Here is the link to that. https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic/blob/master/doc/syntastic.txt

I also included a picture from the documentation, but it does not show the actual default symbol meanings. I tried to use help on the various keywords in the help message, but those did not work for me either.

Does anyone know where to find this info.

Answer 1

short answer: ! for error, _ for number of deleted lines signs are from vim-signify and/or syntastic.

SpaceVim override syntastic config g:syntastic_warning_symbol/g:syntastic_error_symbol with g:spacevim_error_symbol/g:spacevim_warning_symbol your local config might have overridden those configs too.

refs:

https://github.com/mhinz/vim-signify/blob/master/doc/signify.txt#L100 https://github.com/vim-syntastic/syntastic/blob/master/doc/syntastic.txt#L411

https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/blob/dev/doc/SpaceVim.txt#L198 https://github.com/SpaceVim/SpaceVim/blob/dev/config/plugins/syntastic.vim

Answer 2

I am maintainer of SpaceVim, and Thanks for creating the SpaceVim tag, I just read the Q&A, these kind of symbols are from vim-signify, in SpaceVim we use neomake as default syntax checking plugin, to change the error/warning symbols of spacevim, you need to use g:spacevim_error_symbol and g:spacevim_warning_symbol, by default they are ✖ and ➤.