Invalid position given by 'W033'

[twhite96]

JSHint returned a point that did not exist in the document being edited.
Rule: W033
Requested start point: 6:16
Just updated to the latest Atom and got this error.

code:

// Testing for localStorage
// Wanted to use localStorage instead of a database because the data is just very small text files
// Testing code can be found here: MDN Github https://github.com/mdn/dom-examples/blob/master/web-storage/main.js

function storageAvailable(type) {
	'use strict'
	try {
		var storage = window[type], x = "__storage_test__";
		storage.setItem(x, x);
		storage.removeItem(x);
		return true;
	} catch (e) {
		return (
			e instanceof DOMException && // everything except Firefox
			(e.code === 22 || // Firefox
			e.code === 1014 || // test name field too, because code might not be present // everything except Firefox
			e.name === "QuotaExceededError" || // Firefox
				e.name === "NS_ERROR_DOM_QUOTA_REACHED") && // acknowledge QuotaExceededError only if there's something already stored
			storage.length !== 0
		);
	}
}

console.log(storageAvailable());

// Example functions to populate storage and set styles.
// Can comment out or edit
// Using so that I can see if the browser is capabale of calling localStorage on the DOM.
// Commenting out for now so that I can edit

var htmlElem = document.querySelector('html');
var pElem = document.querySelector('p');
var bgcolorForm = document.getElementById('bgcolor');
var fontForm = document.getElementById('font');

// Test for localStorage

if(!localStorage.getItem('bgcolor')) {
  populateStorage();
} else {
  setStyles();
}

function populateStorage() {
  localStorage.setItem('bgcolor', document.getElementById('bgcolor').value);
  localStorage.setItem('font', document.getElementById('font').value);
  localStorage.setItem('image', document.getElementById('image').value);
  setStyles();
}
function setStyles() {
  var currentColor = localStorage.getItem('bgcolor');
  var currentFont = localStorage.getItem('font');
  document.getElementById('bgcolor').value = currentColor;
  document.getElementById('font').value = currentFont;
  htmlElem.style.backgroundColor = '#' + currentColor;
  pElem.style.fontFamily = currentFont;
}
bgcolorForm.onchange = populateStorage;
fontForm.onchange = populateStorage;

/* App Starts Here */
$('#texts').val('New Text');
$('#texts').trigger('autoresize');
var writeGood = require('write-good');
var suggestions = writeGood(userInput, {weasel: false});

suggestions: [{

}];

Debug information:

Atom version: 1.18.0
linter-jshint version: v3.1.4
JSHint version: jshint v2.9.5
Hours since last Atom restart: 0.2
Platform: darwin
Current file's scopes: [
  "source.js",
  "comment.line.double-slash.js",
  "punctuation.definition.comment.js"
]
linter-jshint configuration: {
  "disableWhenNoJshintrcFileInPath": true,
  "executablePath": "",
  "lintInlineJavaScript": false,
  "scopes": [
    "source.js",
    "source.js-semantic"
  ],
  "jshintFileName": ".jshintrc",
  "jshintignoreFilename": ".jshintignore"
}

[Arcanemagus]

Since your example code is indented using tabs, you are hitting a bug in JSHint where almost (?) all rules are broken when using tabs. Please follow jshint/jshint#3151 for further updates on getting this fixed in JSHint.