Misformatted .jshintrc should produce some visible error

[muszek]

It looks like it uses some default values if there's an error (but the user has no idea). For example, I've had a trailing comma in the globals object:

"globals": {
"_": true,
},
"smarttabs": true,
...
The plugin misbehaved, it jshinted my code as if smarttabs was set to false.

[victorporof]

Would a simple message outputted to the console be sufficient in your opinion? I'm afraid this can be easily missed though, and modal popups are super annoying.

[muszek]

They are annoying only when you have to deal with them too often. I'm afraid this might be the case, though (for example I'm unsuccessfully trying to fix the config file (don't really know what the problem is) and every time I save, I have to close the popup.

Maybe there's another hard-to-miss way? Like marking an error every single javascript line. This way I can't miss it and I don't have to do anything to dismiss the error message.