bug#13779: 24.2; How to turn on flymake-mode automatically?

["Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Am 20.05.2013 15:27, schrieb Reuben Thomas:
> On 22 February 2013 00:26, Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> wrote:
>
>> In flymake-mode.el is the following commented-out line:
>>
>>        ;;+(add-hook 'find-file-hook 'flymake-find-file-hook)
>>
>> It has not been touched since 2005, and the commit log then suggests it
>> was merely moved from another place; I can't find any other reference to
>> it in the bzr logs.
>>
>> According to the manual, adding this hook to find-file-hook is the
>> recommended way to activate flymake-mode automatically, and that is
>> never done. Nor can I find a way to turn flymake-mode on automatically
>> with customize; it seems the best I can do is copy the above line,
>> uncommented, into my Emacs initialization file.
>>
>> It is far from obvious that the line above should be uncommented, but if
>> not, maybe it should be removed, and a more user-friendly and standard
>> way of activating flymake-mode automatically added?
>>
>
> Ping? I've been using this setting in my init file without problems for a
> while now…
>

GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.14) of 2013-03-05

M-x flymake-mode RET

toggles it right from the spot.

Andreas