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+"============================================================================
+"File:        haxe.vim
+"Description: Syntax checking plugin for syntastic.vim
+"Maintainer:  Lincoln Stoll <l@lds.li>
+"License:     This program is free software. It comes without any warranty,
+"             to the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute
+"             it and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You
+"             Want To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar.
+"             See http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
+"
+"============================================================================
+if exists("loaded_haxe_syntax_checker")
+    finish
+endif
+let loaded_haxe_syntax_checker = 1
+
+"bail if the user doesn't have haxe installed
+if !executable("haxe")
+  echo "haxe not found"
+  finish
+endif
+
+" Find_in_parent
+" find the file argument and returns the path to it.
+" Starting with the current working dir, it walks up the parent folders
+" until it finds the file, or it hits the stop dir.
+" If it doesn't find it, it returns "Nothing"
+function! Find_in_parent(fln,flsrt,flstp)
+  let here = a:flsrt
+  while ( strlen( here) > 0 )
+    let p = split(globpath(here, a:fln), '\n')
+    if len(p) > 0
+      return ['ok', here, fnamemodify(p[0], ':p:t')]
+    endif
+    let fr = match(here, '/[^/]*$')
+    if fr == -1
+      break
+    endif
+    let here = strpart(here, 0, fr)
+    if here == a:flstp
+      break
+    endif
+  endwhile
+  return ['fail', '', '']
+endfunction
+
+function! SyntaxCheckers_haxe_GetLocList()
+    let [success, hxmldir, hxmlname] = Find_in_parent('*.hxml', expand('%:p:h'), '/')
+    if success == 'ok'
+      let makeprg = 'cd ' . hxmldir . '; haxe ' . hxmlname
+      let errorformat = '%E%f:%l: characters %c-%*[0-9] : %m'
+      return SyntasticMake({ 'makeprg': makeprg, 'errorformat': errorformat })
+    else
+      return SyntasticMake({})
+    endif
+endfunction