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…

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