Unable to pass `--target` through g:typescript_compiler_options variable

[bmenant]

Related to #29 and #25.

I’ve defined this compiler option in my .vimrc:

let g:typescript_compiler_options = '--target ES5' 

Then, when I try to :make, the compiler didn’t run and displayed those notices instead:

:!make  2>&1| tee /tmp/jdoe/v5YcHTT/7
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
(1 of 1): make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop. 

However, when I :set makeprg=tsc\ --target\ ES5\ $*\ %, the :make cmd works as expected.

EDIT: I’m also having those notices after commenting out the g:typescript_compiler_options definition.

N.B.: I’m also using the syntastic checker with let g:syntastic_typescript_tsc_args = '--target ES5' (which works fine). Could it be related?

[leafgarland]

I think something else is changing makeprg for your typescript buffer. If you enter this command in a typescript buffer you should see something like tsc --target ES% $* %.

:echo &makeprg

[leafgarland]

I can't say if it is syntastic, I haven't tried that - you could try disabling it to find out.

[leafgarland]

I'm going to close this, assuming its related to other aspects of your vim setup. Happy to open it again if you have some more info.

[stefanpenner]

let g:syntastic_typescript_tsc_args = '--target ES5'

seems to work for me :)

[lvarayut]

I set let g:typescript_compiler_options = '--target ES5' inside my .vimrc. When I executed :echo &makeprg, I got tsc --target ES5 $* %.

However, I still got Accessors are only available when targeting ECMAScript 5 and higher.

[leafgarland]

@lvarayut if you are using Syntastic then you could try changing g:syntastic_typescript_tsc_args as mentioned above. It looks like something else is compiling/checking your typescript code and not using &makeprg