Disable linting autocmd for readonly buffers (#1202)

* Disable linting autocmd for readonly buffers

This should avoid linting in buffers outside of the user's control,
having in mind especially the handy LSP pop-ups that describe your
hovered symbol using markdown.

Co-authored-by: Robin Gruyters <2082795+rgruyters@users.noreply.github.com>

* Justify guarding try_lint in readonly buffers

Co-authored-by: Robin Gruyters <2082795+rgruyters@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: Robin Gruyters <2082795+rgruyters@users.noreply.github.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/nvim/lua/kickstart/plugins/lint.lua b/nvim/lua/kickstart/plugins/lint.lua
index ca9bc23..907c6bf 100644
--- a/nvim/lua/kickstart/plugins/lint.lua
+++ b/nvim/lua/kickstart/plugins/lint.lua
@@ -47,7 +47,12 @@ return {
       vim.api.nvim_create_autocmd({ 'BufEnter', 'BufWritePost', 'InsertLeave' }, {
         group = lint_augroup,
         callback = function()
-          lint.try_lint()
+          -- Only run the linter in buffers that you can modify in order to
+          -- avoid superfluous noise, notably within the handy LSP pop-ups that
+          -- describe the hovered symbol using Markdown.
+          if vim.opt_local.modifiable:get() then
+            lint.try_lint()
+          end
         end,
       })
     end,