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+" Adapted from fatih/vim-go: autoload/go/fmt.vim
+"
+" Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+" Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+" license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+"
+" Upstream: https://github.com/ziglang/zig.vim
+
+function! zig#fmt#Format() abort
+  " Save cursor position and many other things.
+  let view = winsaveview()
+
+  if !executable('zig')
+    echohl Error | echomsg "no zig binary found in PATH" | echohl None
+    return
+  endif
+
+  let cmdline = 'zig fmt --stdin --ast-check'
+  let current_buf = bufnr('')
+
+  " The formatted code is output on stdout, the errors go on stderr.
+  if exists('*systemlist')
+    silent let out = systemlist(cmdline, current_buf)
+  else
+    silent let out = split(system(cmdline, current_buf))
+  endif
+  if len(out) == 1
+    if out[0] == "error: unrecognized parameter: '--ast-check'"
+      let cmdline = 'zig fmt --stdin'
+      if exists('*systemlist')
+        silent let out = systemlist(cmdline, current_buf)
+      else
+        silent let out = split(system(cmdline, current_buf))
+      endif
+    endif
+  endif
+  let err = v:shell_error
+
+
+  if err == 0
+    " remove undo point caused via BufWritePre.
+    try | silent undojoin | catch | endtry
+
+    " Replace the file content with the formatted version.
+    if exists('*deletebufline')
+      call deletebufline(current_buf, len(out), line('$'))
+    else
+      silent execute ':' . len(out) . ',' . line('$') . ' delete _'
+    endif
+    call setline(1, out)
+
+    " No errors detected, close the loclist.
+    call setloclist(0, [], 'r')
+    lclose
+  elseif get(g:, 'zig_fmt_parse_errors', 1)
+    let errors = s:parse_errors(expand('%'), out)
+
+    call setloclist(0, [], 'r', {
+        \ 'title': 'Errors',
+        \ 'items': errors,
+        \ })
+
+    let max_win_height = get(g:, 'zig_fmt_max_window_height', 5)
+    " Prevent the loclist from becoming too long.
+    let win_height = min([max_win_height, len(errors)])
+    " Open the loclist, but only if there's at least one error to show.
+    execute 'silent! lwindow ' . win_height
+  endif
+
+  call winrestview(view)
+
+  if err != 0
+    echohl Error | echomsg "zig fmt returned error" | echohl None
+    return
+  endif
+
+  " Run the syntax highlighter on the updated content and recompute the folds if
+  " needed.
+  syntax sync fromstart
+endfunction
+
+" parse_errors parses the given errors and returns a list of parsed errors
+function! s:parse_errors(filename, lines) abort
+  " list of errors to be put into location list
+  let errors = []
+  for line in a:lines
+    let tokens = matchlist(line, '^\(.\{-}\):\(\d\+\):\(\d\+\)\s*\(.*\)')
+    if !empty(tokens)
+      call add(errors,{
+            \"filename": a:filename,
+            \"lnum":     tokens[2],
+            \"col":      tokens[3],
+            \"text":     tokens[4],
+            \ })
+    endif
+  endfor
+
+  return errors
+endfunction
+" vim: sw=2 ts=2 et