Triggering syntastic error display more often

autoload/youcompleteme.vim

@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ let s:searched_and_no_results_found = 0
 let s:should_use_clang = 0
 let s:completion_start_column = 0
 let s:omnifunc_mode = 0
-let g:ycm_min_num_of_chars_for_completion = 2
 
 function! youcompleteme#Enable()
   " If the user set the current filetype as a filetype that YCM should ignore,
@@ -36,7 +35,8 @@ function! youcompleteme#Enable()
 
   augroup youcompleteme
     autocmd!
-    autocmd CursorMovedI * call s:OnMovedI()
+    autocmd CursorMovedI * call s:OnCursorMovedInsertMode()
+    " autocmd CursorMoved * call s:OnCursorMovedNormalMode()
     " Note that these events will NOT trigger for the file vim is started with;
     " so if you do "vim foo.cc", these events will not trigger when that buffer
     " is read. This is because youcompleteme#Enable() is called on VimEnter and
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ endfunction
 
 function! s:OnCursorHold()
   call s:ParseFile()
+  call s:UpdateDiagnosticNotifications()
 endfunction
 
 
@@ -122,14 +123,27 @@ function! s:SetCompleteFunc()
 endfunction
 
 
-function! s:OnMovedI()
+function! s:OnCursorMovedInsertMode()
   call s:IdentifierFinishedOperations()
   call s:InvokeCompletion()
 endfunction
 
 
+" function! s:OnCursorMovedNormalMode()
+"   call s:UpdateDiagnosticNotifications()
+" endfunction
+
+
 function! s:OnInsertLeave()
   let s:omnifunc_mode = 0
+  call s:UpdateDiagnosticNotifications()
+endfunction
+
+
+function! s:UpdateDiagnosticNotifications()
+  if g:loaded_syntastic_plugin && s:ClangEnabledForCurrentFile()
+    SyntasticCheck
+  endif
 endfunction
 
 
@@ -275,6 +289,9 @@ function! youcompleteme#ClangOmniComplete( findstart, base )
 endfunction
 
 
+" This is what Syntastic calls indirectly when it decides an auto-check is
+" required (currently that's on buffer save) OR when the SyntasticCheck command
+" is invoked
 function! youcompleteme#CurrentFileDiagnostics()
   if s:ClangEnabledForCurrentFile()
     return pyeval( 'clangcomp.GetDiagnosticsForCurrentFile()' )

cpp/ycm/ClangCompleter.cpp

@@ -340,6 +340,8 @@ void ClangCompleter::SetFileCompileFlags(
 std::vector< Diagnostic > ClangCompleter::DiagnosticsForFile(
     const std::string &filename )
 {
+  // TODO: make sure that accessing the translation unit is thread safe; what if
+  // a bg thread is parsing the TU when we try to access the diagnostics?
   CXTranslationUnit unit = FindWithDefault( filename_to_translation_unit_,
                                             filename,
                                             NULL );

cpp/ycm/indexer.cpp

@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(indexer)
     .def( "SetFileCompileFlags", &ClangCompleter::SetFileCompileFlags )
     .def( "DiagnosticsForFile", &ClangCompleter::DiagnosticsForFile )
     .def( "UpdatingTranslationUnit", &ClangCompleter::UpdatingTranslationUnit )
+    .def( "UpdateTranslationUnit", &ClangCompleter::UpdateTranslationUnit )
     .def( "UpdateTranslationUnitAsync",
           &ClangCompleter::UpdateTranslationUnitAsync )
     .def( "CandidatesForQueryAndLocationInFileAsync",

python/ycm.py

@@ -179,12 +179,13 @@ class ClangCompleter( Completer ):
 
 
   def OnFileReadyToParse( self ):
-    self.future = self.completer.UpdateTranslationUnitAsync(
+    self.completer.UpdateTranslationUnitAsync( vim.current.buffer.name,
-      vim.current.buffer.name,
                                                self.GetUnsavedFilesVector() )
 
 
   def GetDiagnosticsForCurrentFile( self ):
+    if self.completer.UpdatingTranslationUnit():
+      return []
     return [ DiagnosticToDict( x ) for x in
              self.completer.DiagnosticsForFile( vim.current.buffer.name ) ]