The real fix was not using absolute paths anymore (so not expanding with the `:p` option). The regex was correct and should at least include the `^` character to make sure the string starts with the given path/filename and not references the path/filename in some error description.
They changed their logic to use related paths instead of absoluut paths (see [here](https://github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter/commit/a04df08be5899be3c7ad69aa379858dcb660c709#diff-04424ed7c660c10495a54e8d11be89eaR253))
This fixes the linter by also using relative paths…
* Improve performance when using gometalinter
Before this change when I opened a big project that had 6000+ warnings/errors it took ages to get the actual warnings/errors and it caused my CPU to be busy for quite some time. The call to gometalinter alone took about 24 seconds, but after that vim was struggling as well.
After this change the gometalinter call just takes 2 seconds and nothing noticable happens with the CPU and/or vim.
* Removed obsolete test
This logic is no longer done by the `ale` plugin, but by `gometalinter` itself.
Sander van Harmelen