Re: Flymake refactored

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2017-10-01, at 01:43, João Távora <address@hidden> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I didn't (yet) look at it, but thanks for working on this.  I use
>> Flycheck currently (maily for JavaScript/ESlint), but I'm wondering
>> whether to switch to flymake at some point in time.  Just being curious:
>> does Flycheck support running more linters on the same file at the same
>
> I don't know (did you mean Flycheck or Flymake?). If you meant Flymake,
> then the answer is yes.

I know that.  I want to know whether Flycheck can do that, too.  If not,
then we have a strong advantage of Flymake.

>> time?  (From a cursory glance at the docs, I'm not sure.)  Also, how
>> would one switch to Flymake for JS?
>
> One possibility would be: wait that it is (hopefully) present in the
> next official emacs release, Emacs 26.1 and then wait that someone
> writes a decent JS backend (what you call "linter" and Flycheck calls
> "checkers") for it.

By "linter" I mean the outside program doing the checking (like
ESlint).  By "checker", Flymake/Flycheck mean the Elisp interface
between the linter and fly.*.

> Another possibility would be: check out the most recent code and write
> the backend yourself :-)

That's a cool idea.  I am quite tempted to do that.  As usual, time is
the main problem.

>> (Note: I understand that your time is limited, João, so if answer to any
>> of these questions requires more than 30 seconds, just tell me to rtfm,
>> which I'll be happy to do once I'm at home.)
>
> :-)
>
> It took about 60 seconds but I'm not going to charge for the extra 30.

Oh, thanks!

> Also there is yet no m to rtf. Working on it.

I'd be happy to proofread it when the time comes.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski