Remove references to gometalinter that's deprecated (#2938)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4e014c2..a7874fc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 
 - Build-on-save to compile code and show build errors. (using `go build` and `go test`)
 - Vet-on-save to run `go vet` and show errors as warnings
-- Lint-on-save to show linting errors as warnings (using `golint`, `gometalinter`, `staticcheck`, `golangci-lint` or `revive`)
+- Lint-on-save to show linting errors as warnings (using `golint`, `staticcheck`, `golangci-lint` or `revive`)
 - Semantic/Syntactic error reporting as you type (using `gotype-live`)
 
 ### Testing
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 49b0370..c755892 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -788,8 +788,7 @@
             "golint",
             "golangci-lint",
             "revive",
-            "staticcheck",
-            "gometalinter"
+            "staticcheck"
           ]
         },
         "go.lintFlags": {
@@ -1451,11 +1450,6 @@
               "default": "go",
               "description": "Alternate tool to use instead of the go binary or alternate path to use for the go binary."
             },
-            "gometalinter": {
-              "type": "string",
-              "default": "gometalinter",
-              "description": "Alternate tool to use instead of the gometalinter binary or alternate path to use for the gometalinter binary."
-            },
             "gocode": {
               "type": "string",
               "default": "gocode",