gaplint
automatically checks the format of a GAP file according to
some conventions, which are somewhat configurable. It prints the nature
and location of instances of any instances of violations of these
conventions (see below for more details).
Simply run:
$ pip install gaplint
To use it:
$ gaplint --help
To disable all rules for a particular file you can add the line:
# gaplint: disable = all
to the start of the file before any lines that contain any code. All rules are enabled by default.
Code | Name | Rule Description |
---|---|---|
W000 |
analyse-lvars |
Warns if there are declared local variables that are not used or assigned but not used |
W001 |
empty-lines |
Warns if there are consecutive empty lines |
W002 |
line-too-long |
Warns if there is a line which is longer than the configured maximum (defaults to 80) |
W003 |
indentation |
Warns if a line is under indented |
W004 |
align-assignments |
Warns if there are assignments in consecutive lines that are not aligned |
W005 |
align-trailing-comments |
Warns if there are trailing comments in consecutive lines that are not aligned |
W006 |
align-comments |
Warns if there are non-trailing comments in consecutive lines that are not aligned |
W007 |
trailing-whitespace |
Warns if there is trailing whitespace at the end of a line |
W008 |
no-space-after-comment |
Warns if there is no space after any number of # is a line |
W009 |
not-enough-space-before-comment |
Warns if there is not enough space before the first # in any line (defaults to 2) |
W010 |
space-after-comma |
Warns if a comma is followed by more than one space |
W011 |
space-before-comma |
Warns if a comma is preceded by a space |
W012 |
space-after-bracket |
Warns if there is a space after an opening bracket |
W013 |
space-before-bracket |
Warns if there is a space before a closing bracket |
W014 |
multiple-semicolons |
Warns if there is more than one semicolon in a line |
W015 |
keyword-function |
Warns if the keyword function is not followed by an open bracket |
W016 |
whitespace-op-assign |
Warns if there is not exactly one space after an assignment (:=) |
W017 |
tabs |
Warns if there are tabs |
W018 |
function-local-same-line |
Warns if the keywords function and local appear in the same line |
W019 |
whitespace-op-minus |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of a minus (-) operator |
W020 |
whitespace-op-plus |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of a plus (+) operator |
W021 |
whitespace-op-multiply |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of a multiply (*) operator |
W022 |
whitespace-op-negative |
Warns if there is not exactly one space preceding a negative (-) operator |
W023 |
whitespace-op-less-than |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of a less-than (<) operator |
W024 |
whitespace-op-less-equal |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of a less-than / equal-to (<=) operator |
W025 |
whitespace-op-more-than |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of a greater-than(>) operator |
W026 |
whitespace-op-more-equal |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of greater than or equal to (>=) operator |
W027 |
whitespace-op-equals |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of equals (=) operator |
W028 |
whitespace-op-mapping |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of mapping (->) operator |
W029 |
whitespace-op-divide |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of divide (/) operator |
W030 |
whitespace-op-power |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of the power (^) operator |
W031 |
whitespace-op-not-equal |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of not-equal (<>) operator |
W032 |
whitespace-op-double-dot |
Warns if there is not exactly one space either side of arithmetic progression (..) operator |
W033 |
assign-then-return |
Warns if a variable is assigned and then immediately returned |
Certain parameters can be configured, for example, the maximum number of
characters permitted per line. All rules are enabled by default but can
be disable at the command line, by comments in the file itself, or in a
configuration file .gaplint.yml
.
Configuration keywords:
columns
: maximum number of characters per line. Defaults to 80.max-warnings
: maximum number of warnings beforegaplint
aborts. Defaults to 1000.indentation
: minimum indentation of nested statements. Defaults to 2.disable
: rules can be disabled using their name or code. Defaults to no rules disabled.
A list of all of the rules that gaplint
can apply is given below.
You can alter the configuration in various places, the order of precedence of these is governed by a hierarchy described below. A preference given somewhere higher on the hierarchy than another will be given precedence. Disabled rules accumulate through the hierarchy.
These preferences will be applied for a single run of gaplint
only (though
multiple files may be linted in this run). To configure gaplint
to be run
on file1
, file2
, ..., with preferences as in the example above, we
enter the following into the command line:
gaplint --columns=100 --indentation=4 --disable=W002,W028 file1 file2 ...
Any rule, including all
, can be suppressed for a specific line or for a
whole file:
To supress a rule(s) for a given line, include the following after the line of code for which the rule is to be suppressed:
# gaplint: disable=<name_or_code>, <name_or_code> ...
If the above is too long to fit after the relevant line of code, suppressions can be declared in the line above for the line below by including
(nextline)
:# gaplint: disable(nextline)=<name_or_code>, <name_or_code>, ...
If rules have been suppressed for a given line using both the in-line and nextline options, the union of the two rule sets given for suppression will be disabled for the line.
To suppress rules for a whole file the following must be included before any code is written (i.e. either as the first line of a GAP file, or preceded by any combination of only whitespace, empty lines and comments):
# gaplint: disable=<name_or_code>, <name_or_code>, ...
To configure
gaplint
as in the above examples, create a.gaplint.yml
file containing the following lines:columns: 100 indentation: 4 disable: - W002 - W028
gaplint
looks for the .gaplint.yml
file in the current
directory, and its ancestors, until it reaches a directory containing
a git
repository or the .gaplint.yml
file is located. If
there is no .gaplint.yml
file, then the default configuration
options are used. The options configured in .gaplint.yml
are
applied to every file on which gaplint
is run from the current
directory unless overruled higher in the hierarchy.