I'm running into errors when attempting to run flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer. If run after I've enabled line numbers via global-display-line-numbers-mode, I get the following stack trace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) flymake--diagnostics-buffer-entries() tabulated-list-print(t) tabulated-list-revert() run-hooks(display-line-numbers-mode-hook display-line-numbers-mode-on-hook) display-line-numbers-mode() display-line-numbers--turn-on() global-display-line-numbers-mode-enable-in-buffers() run-hooks(after-change-major-mode-hook) run-mode-hooks(flymake-diagnostics-buffer-mode-hook) flymake-diagnostics-buffer-mode() flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer() funcall-interactively(flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer) call-interactively(flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer record nil) command-execute(flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer record) execute-extended-command(nil "flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer" "flymake-show-diagnostics") funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer" "flymake-show-diagnostics") call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil) command-execute(execute-extended-command) Once this has been thrown once, running flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer works properly. The only thing in my config file is (global-display-line-numbers-mode). To repro: emacs -Q C-x b *scratch* M-x global-display-line-numbers-mode M-x flymake-mode M-x flymake-show-diagnostics-buffer Recent messages: For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a. Flymake mode enabled in current buffer tabulated-list-print: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil Making completion list... Configured using: 'configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib --localstatedir=/var --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft --with-modules 'CFLAGS=-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt' CPPFLAGS=-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LIBSYSTEMD LCMS2 Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: Lisp Interaction Minor modes in effect: flymake-mode: t global-display-line-numbers-mode: t display-line-numbers-mode: t tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t