From cafb55b3c859d787d7d09b0ea072d848071d9959 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Grenfell <martin.grenfell@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:32:36 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix a minor issue when echoing the current error

Only clear the cmd window when it is displaying a message that we
echoed. Previously we were echoing a blank line every time the cursor
moved - this was clearing messages generated from other sources than
syntastic.
---
 plugin/syntastic.vim | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugin/syntastic.vim b/plugin/syntastic.vim
index ff6bd8a4..1ceba518 100644
--- a/plugin/syntastic.vim
+++ b/plugin/syntastic.vim
@@ -340,12 +340,16 @@ function! s:EchoCurrentError()
     let lnum = line(".")
     for i in b:syntastic_loclist
         if lnum == i['lnum']
+            let b:syntastic_echoing_error = 1
             return s:WideMsg(i['text'])
         endif
     endfor
 
     "Otherwise, clear the status line
-    echo
+    if exists("b:syntastic_echoing_error")
+        echo
+        unlet b:syntastic_echoing_error
+    endif
 endfunction
 
 "return a string representing the state of buffer according to