bug#37238: flymake feature request

bug#37238: flymake feature request

[bruno cuconato]

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hi,

I wonder what your thoughts are on showing flymake diagnostics in the
minibuffer after a timeout, similarly to how flycheck does it, or how
https://github.com/akash-akya/emacs-flymake-cursor seems to do.

My thoughts are that this is not so simple* to implement as adding a
function to the overlay keymap (hence the existence of flymake-cursor)
and thus shouldn't be left to the user if it is deemed a worthy
feature; and that it would be nice to have as a built-in feature
instead of having it in a third party package since there are more
than two forks of flymake-cursor already and I'm happy to avoid MELPA.

Would you consider incorporating this functionality in flymake?

* there is a simple hack that seems to work though: enabling eldoc,
and using the `eldoc-documentation-function' to display the errors.

thank you,

-- bruno cuconato

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bug#37238: flymake feature request

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

bruno cuconato <bcclaro@gmail.com> writes:

> I wonder what your thoughts are on showing flymake diagnostics in the
> minibuffer after a timeout, similarly to how flycheck does it, or how
> https://github.com/akash-akya/emacs-flymake-cursor seems to do.
>
> My thoughts are that this is not so simple* to implement as adding a
> function to the overlay keymap (hence the existence of flymake-cursor)
> and thus shouldn't be left to the user if it is deemed a worthy
> feature; and that it would be nice to have as a built-in feature
> instead of having it in a third party package since there are more
> than two forks of flymake-cursor already and I'm happy to avoid MELPA.
>
> Would you consider incorporating this functionality in flymake?

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

I tend to think that this sort of thing is best left to external
packages instead of having it in-core -- there's so many ways to display
stuff like this.

So I'm closing this bug report as a "wontfix".

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