Add tab-width option to lll linter

Author: jfrabaute-arista

.golangci.example.yml

@@ -107,8 +107,11 @@ linters-settings:
     # Setting locale to US will correct the British spelling of 'colour' to 'color'.
     locale: US
   lll:
-    # max line length, lines longer will be reported. Default is 120. '\t' is counted as 1 character.
+    # max line length, lines longer will be reported. Default is 120.
+    # '\t' is counted as 1 character by default, and can be changed with the tab-width option
     line-length: 120
+    # tab width in spaces. Default to 1.
+    tab-width: 1
   unused:
     # treat code as a program (not a library) and report unused exported identifiers; default is false.
     # XXX: if you enable this setting, unused will report a lot of false-positives in text editors:

README.md

@@ -520,8 +520,11 @@ linters-settings:
     # Setting locale to US will correct the British spelling of 'colour' to 'color'.
     locale: US
   lll:
-    # max line length, lines longer will be reported. Default is 120. '\t' is counted as 1 character.
+    # max line length, lines longer will be reported. Default is 120.
+    # '\t' is counted as 1 character by default, and can be changed with the tab-width option
     line-length: 120
+    # tab width in spaces. Default to 1.
+    tab-width: 1
   unused:
     # treat code as a program (not a library) and report unused exported identifiers; default is false.
     # XXX: if you enable this setting, unused will report a lot of false-positives in text editors:

pkg/commands/run.go

@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ func initFlagSet(fs *pflag.FlagSet, cfg *config.Config) {
 		"Depguard: check list against standard lib")
 	hideFlag("depguard.include-go-root")
 
+	fs.IntVar(&lsc.Lll.TabWidth, "lll.tab-width", 1,
+		"Lll: tab width in spaces")
+	hideFlag("lll.tab-width")
+
 	// Linters config
 	lc := &cfg.Linters
 	fs.StringSliceVarP(&lc.Enable, "enable", "E", nil, wh("Enable specific linter"))

pkg/config/config.go

@@ -168,6 +168,7 @@ type LintersSettings struct {
 
 type LllSettings struct {
 	LineLength int `mapstructure:"line-length"`
+	TabWidth   int `mapstructure:"tab-width"`
 }
 
 type UnparamSettings struct {
@@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ type PreallocSettings struct {
 var defaultLintersSettings = LintersSettings{
 	Lll: LllSettings{
 		LineLength: 120,
+		TabWidth:   1,
 	},
 	Unparam: UnparamSettings{
 		Algo: "cha",

pkg/golinters/lll.go

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ func (Lll) Desc() string {
 	return "Reports long lines"
 }
 
-func (lint Lll) getIssuesForFile(filename string, maxLineLen int) ([]result.Issue, error) {
+func (lint Lll) getIssuesForFile(filename string, maxLineLen int, tabSpaces string) ([]result.Issue, error) {
 	var res []result.Issue
 
 	f, err := os.Open(filename)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ func (lint Lll) getIssuesForFile(filename string, maxLineLen int) ([]result.Issu
 	scanner := bufio.NewScanner(f)
 	for scanner.Scan() {
 		line := scanner.Text()
-		line = strings.Replace(line, "\t", " ", -1)
+		line = strings.Replace(line, "\t", tabSpaces, -1)
 		lineLen := utf8.RuneCountInString(line)
 		if lineLen > maxLineLen {
 			res = append(res, result.Issue{
@@ -61,8 +61,9 @@ func (lint Lll) getIssuesForFile(filename string, maxLineLen int) ([]result.Issu
 
 func (lint Lll) Run(ctx context.Context, lintCtx *linter.Context) ([]result.Issue, error) {
 	var res []result.Issue
+	spaces := strings.Repeat(" ", lintCtx.Settings().Lll.TabWidth)
 	for _, f := range lintCtx.PkgProgram.Files(lintCtx.Cfg.Run.AnalyzeTests) {
-		issues, err := lint.getIssuesForFile(f, lintCtx.Settings().Lll.LineLength)
+		issues, err := lint.getIssuesForFile(f, lintCtx.Settings().Lll.LineLength, spaces)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}

test/testdata/lll.go

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-// args: -Elll
+// args: -Elll --lll.tab-width 4
 package testdata
 
 func Lll() {
-	// In my experience, long lines are the lines with comments, not the code. So this is a long comment // ERROR "line is 135 characters"
+	// In my experience, long lines are the lines with comments, not the code. So this is a long comment // ERROR "line is 138 characters"
 }