Avoid running Puppet validator for Bolt plans

Question

I'm using the following settings to automatically run puppet validate on a manifest when I'm saving the file:

autocmd FileType puppet set makeprg=puppet_validate.sh\ %
autocmd BufWritePost *.pp :silent make | redraw!

However, we're also using Bolt, and Bolt plans written in the Puppet language also have the extension .pp. Validating those files produces an error like this:

Error: Could not parse for environment production: Syntax error at 'targets'

because the validator doesn't support bolt-specific syntax.

How can I skip validation for bolt plans?

Answer 1

Define a different file type for bolt plans. In ~/.vim/ftdetect/puppet.vim change the line

au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.pp setfiletype puppet

to something like this:

au! BufRead,BufNewFile *.pp if search('^plan ', 'n') == 0 | setfiletype puppet | else | setfiletype bolt | endif

The search() function returns the line number of the next line matching the given expression (the parameter 'n' tells vim to not move the cursor to that line). A result of 0 means that no matching line was found (i.e. you have a Puppet manifest) and the file type is set to puppet. Otherwise the file type is set to bolt. Since makeprg=puppet_validate.sh is defined only for the file type puppet the command is not being run when saving files with the type bolt.

If you want to keep the syntax highlighting, copy ~/.vim/syntax/puppet.vim to ~/.vim/syntax/bolt.vim (the name of the file must match the file type you set for Bolt plans).