This is an sbt plugin that generates a quickfix file that can be used with Vim.

Inspired by Alois Cochard's blog post on setting up quickfix using a bash wrapper around sbt..

Add this to your ~/.sbt/0.13/plugins/plugins.sbt:

addSbtPlugin("com.dscleaver.sbt" % "sbt-quickfix" % "0.4.1")

Note: this plugin was built for sbt 0.13 use version 0.3.1 for sbt 0.12

If your vim is setup to use Pathogen, then the vim-sbt plugin can be installed with this command:

sbt installVimPlugin  #'sbt install-vim-plugin' for older versions of sbt...

This command will replace the plugin files whenever it is run, so it is recommended when upgrading versions of the plugin.

After a compile or test, assuming there was an error, a quickfix file will be created that Vim can use.

If your copy of Vim was compiled with +clientserver and you've enabled the vim-enable-server flag in your SBT project (default is true), then this plugin will automatically load the quickfix file into Vim once it's been created.

If you don't have +clientserver enabled in Vim, or you have disabled the vim-enable-server feature of the plugin, then you can use a Vim mapping to load the file. By default the mapping is <leader>ff, but you can change this if you wish.

By default the plugin will install to ~/.vim/bundle. This plugin base directory can be added to your global config (e.g. ~/.sbt/0.13/global.sbt) as follows:

QuickFixKeys.vimPluginBaseDirectory := file("intended/directory")

You can disable the vim-enable-server flag in the global.sbt as follows:

QuickFixKeys.vimEnableServer := false

The initial version of this plugin required that you add the following lines to your ~/.vimrc:

set errorformat=%E\ %#[error]\ %#%f:%l:\ %m,%-Z\ %#[error]\ %p^,%-C\ %#[error]\ %m
set errorformat+=,%W\ %#[warn]\ %#%f:%l:\ %m,%-Z\ %#[warn]\ %p^,%-C\ %#[warn]\ %m
set errorformat+=,%-G%.%#

noremap <silent> <Leader>ff :cf target/quickfix/sbt.quickfix<CR>
noremap <silent> <Leader>fn :cn<CR>

These lines should be removed from ~/.vimrc

Items that I want to look into in the future:

• Possibly reformat log output for easier consumption
• Add ctags generation possibly turning this into a full vim plugin
• Allow vim server name to be overridden by system property

Code is provided under the BSD 3-Clause license available at https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause, as well as in the LICENSE file.