bug#40573: 27.0.90; flymake-mode broken in scratch buffer

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19.04.2020 12:25, João Távora wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:05 AM Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru 
> <mailto:dgutov@yandex.ru>> wrote:
>
>     On 19.04.2020 02:36, João Távora wrote:
>      > -(define-derived-mode lisp-mode prog-mode "Lisp"
>      > +(define-derived-mode lisp-mode lisp-data-mode "Lisp"
>
>     Speaking of. Is lisp-mode a special case of lisp-data-mode?
>
>     I would say maybe not: you usually can't (read) a whole Lisp buffer,
>     right? 
>
>
> What do you mean? In what conditions?

Just that you'd usually need to call 'read' multiple times, while 
accumulating the intermediate results.

Whereas lisp-data files usually contain just one Lisp form. So e.g. any 
"defun navigation" would jump between the direct children of that form.