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Allow disabling default linters with linter.removeLinter

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Description

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I was trying to replace the gcc linting for clang with custom flags by customizing the linter through a custom plugin (mostly to see how it works).
I first tried to use the linter.removeLinter function (that isn't documented in the readme but is in the source code) and it didn't disabled the gcc linting. For disabling the gcc linter one has to do something like linter.makeLinter("gcc", "", "", {}, "")
Weirdly, calling linter.removeLinter("gcc") after that line seems to remove the custom gcc linter settings and replace it with the default one. It seems the linters table in the linter plugin is being initialized after the user's custom plugin?

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Commit hash: 74523d2
OS: Linux (Fedora 31)
Terminal: gnome-terminal, zsh

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Research direction

Start by tracing linter plugin initialization and the linter.removeLinter("gcc") path, then reproduce the behavior with a custom plugin as described. Done means removeLinter can disable the default gcc linter without restoring it after custom configuration is applied, while existing custom linter settings remain effective.

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Tech stack
go
Domain
cli
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
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