Ignoring some errors generated by the linter

[robojeb]

Some includes in my C++ project require me to specify additional include directories on the command line. Currently the linter marks these as errors. This is rather distracting when I am trying to find other issues. Would it be possible to add a way to silence errors?

[dmnd]

I can't think of a simple way to do this. How do you propose ignoring certain errors would work, from the perspective of both the UI and implementation (e.g. how do we persist that a message should be ignored?)

[ybc37]

I'm facing the same problem. In my case, the 'problems' are AngularJS attributes. Using linter-tidy is kind of useless, because the file is littered with warnings (proprietary attributes; there's already feature request AtomLinter/linter-tidy#1).

Wouldn't it be possible to provide a second regex to plugins. This one could describe lines to be ignored. So plugins could have some specialized ignore settings (e.g. proprietary attributes to ignore), build a regex and pass it to the linter.

SublimeLinter has such a setting and syntastic has a setting to ignore tidy errors (g:syntastic_html_tidy_ignore_errors). Maybe there's some inspiration 😉