From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: New Flymake rewrite in emacs-26 Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 18:00:12 +0300 Message-ID: <83infw1dkz.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8760bwz5qf.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1507042886 21261 195.159.176.226 (3 Oct 2017 15:01:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 15:01:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: sdl.web@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: joaotavora@gmail.com (=?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?=) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 03 17:01:17 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dzOhA-0004cb-Aq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 17:01:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59025 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzOhH-0004Ij-MW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzOgg-0004IU-8c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:00:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzOgc-0002XM-E6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:00:46 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34231) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dzOgO-0002Mn-31; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:00:28 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2785 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dzOgN-0002BD-JX; Tue, 03 Oct 2017 11:00:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <8760bwz5qf.fsf@gmail.com> (joaotavora@gmail.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:219037 Archived-At: > From: joaotavora@gmail.com (João Távora) > Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:05:44 +0100 > > As discussed, I have just merged the Flymake rewrite into emacs-26. I > did this sooner than I expected so people can give it as much testing as > possible. Thanks. > `flymake-mode' is not active by default, so when writing Elisp, I > encourage you to try out the new backends. Just M-x flymake-mode or > > (add-to-list 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'flymake-mode). > > Of course if you were already using Flymake for C, C++, etc. Everything > should also still work (slightly better, in fact). Let me know if it > doesn't. This should be in NEWS, perhaps after adjusting the style a bit. > * The most important docstrings are in place, but the Texinfo > documentation (which I also rewrote considerably) is missing the bits > about the new API for writing backends. We should add some minimal documentation about the new features.