How to stop htmlhint from linting markdown files?

[jtheletter]

Regarding the htmlhint plugin for Sublime, I'm seeing flags raised in readme.md files, such as this:

htmlhint: error
doctype-first - Doctype must be declared first.

And:

htmlhint: error
spec-char-escape - Special characters must be escaped : [ > ].

htmlhint is properly linting *.html files. It's not mis-linting other files, such as *.css and *.js.

Why is it linting markdown files?

If I'm required to exclude them, how do I? Should I add a file to my machine's home directory, such as ~/.htmlhint? What should it say? The following doesn't work:

{
    "exclude": ["**/*.md"]
}

• macOS Catalina Version 10.15.4 (19E287)
• Sublime Text Version 3.2.2, Build 3211
• htmlhint --version 0.10.1

[Shinigami92]

SublimeLinter-contrib-htmlhint/linter.py

Line 26 in 4fdda9e

cmd = ("htmlhint", "--format", "json", "--nocolor", "stdin")

This line is taking stdin
It doesn't check if it's a html file, it takes everything thats currently in scope

[kaste]

Just seeing this. You can try a different selector, e.g.

  "htmlhint": {
     "selector": "text.html - text.html.markdown"
  }

http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/stable/linter_settings.html#selector

This could be a good default as well.

Otherwise, the name of the key to "exclude" is "excludes" in SublimeLinter. http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/stable/linter_settings.html#excludes

     "excludes": "*.md"

[jtheletter]

If I create a file ~/.htmlhintrc as:

{
    "excludes": "*.md"
}

HtmlHint stops working. Why might that be?

Where might I put such a selector config for global usage?

[kaste]

Both "selector" and "excludes" are SublimeLinter settings. So you set them within Sublime Text. Globally, using the Command Palette ctrl+shit+p, then type SLS and look for SublimeLinter Settings. Can also be used per project, Command Palette Edit Project.

[jtheletter]

Thank you. When I change the file at ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/SublimeLinter.sublime-settings to include the following config, the linter no longer triggers on MD files, and it continues to work on HTML files. Issue solved.

{
    "linters": {
        "htmlhint": {
             "excludes": "*.md"
        }
    }
}