Vim Syntastic plugin not working for coffeescript 1.6.0+

Question

I have the following syntastic settings inside my .vimrc:

"------------SYNTASTIC-----------
let g:syntastic_enable_signs=1
let g:syntastic_mode_map={ 'mode': 'active',
                     \ 'active_filetypes': [],
                     \ 'passive_filetypes': ['html', 'java'] }
let g:syntastic_coffee_checkers = ['coffeelint', 'coffee']
let g:syntastic_coffee_coffeelint_args = "--file [absolute path to]/coffeelint.json"
let g:syntastic_enable_signs=1
let g:syntastic_error_symbol='✗'
let g:syntastic_warning_symbol='⚠'        

when I have coffeescript installed to 1.6.0+ (i.e. npm install -g coffee-script@1.6.3) syntastic doesn't seem able to detect any compilation errors, even though both coffee file.coffee and coffeelint file.coffee displays the error fine.

I ran :SyntasticCheck then :messages and no debug error surfaced.

I've also made sure that npm is part of the PATH: PATH="/usr/local/share/npm/bin:$PATH"

On the other hand, when coffeescript is installed at coffee-script@1.5.0 the errors DO in fact surface (everything works!), except that it doesn't pick up the coffeelint_args. This behavior might be expect from https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/wiki/CoffeeScript%3A---coffee

Do I need to know something special to get syntastic working w/ coffeescript 1.6.0+ on Mac?

Answer 1

Here's the issue on github: https://github.com/scrooloose/syntastic/issues/694

The fix was to do a git fetch && git rebase or git pull from the syntastic git directory (assuming you're using pathogen)