In terminal Emacs, I found not highlight state of flymake even there is a warning. It can be visible if you set underline to the flymake's face. How to reproduce: 1. cd emacs repo to ./lisp/progmode/ 2. open js.el: $ emacs -Q -nw 4. M-x flymake-mode 3. goto-line 240 or 568 at js.el (there is warning around here, basically putting a space before end of the line cause similar warning in docstring) 5. you can check it by flymake-goto-next-error, but it isn't visible. Not sure this is related, flycheck highlight previous word with the same error. (checked on Emacs-26 branch and pulled 75bb482. This time I used bootstrap option) Thanks, Yuta Yamada