From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
Cc: 44689@debbugs.gnu.org, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:30:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lff0j67w.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mtzg5n8o.fsf@protesilaos.com> (Protesilaos Stavrou's message of "Tue, 17 Nov 2020 11:47:03 +0200")
Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:
> On 2020-11-17, 09:20 +0000, João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> > I'm not sure why it's useful to draw attention to this bit in the mode
>>> > line, though. Is that something users would find useful to have their
>>> > attentions drawn to?
>>>
>>> Perhaps João can answer your question (in cc).
>>
>> Thanks. I dunno, really. That '?' is placed whenever Flymake has
>> been activated but no suitable backend has been found, or no
>> backend has been found to answer suitably. This is an abnormal
>> situation. It points to some misconfiguration, in principle. Does
>> that merit "immediate attention"? I'd say "some attention", but
>> I'm ignorant of the policy and the associated face here, so I'll leave
>> this hair-splitting to you, and you have my blessing for choosing
>> a different face or even no face at all.
>
> While you discuss the rest of the issue with Lars, just to point out
> that the "?" is easy to get.
>
> On 'emacs -Q':
>
> (require 'flymake)
> (setq flymake-start-on-flymake-mode nil)
>
> Now visit an '*.el' file. Activate 'flymake-mode' and check the
> modeline.
Indeed, that's not a misconfiguration. But I'd say it's an edge case:
normally one does want to start checking when enabling flymake, I just
kept that option there for backward compatibility. I personally see no
use for it, do you?
João
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-17 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-16 17:17 bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-11-16 22:20 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-17 5:38 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-11-17 9:20 ` João Távora
2020-11-17 9:47 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-11-17 16:30 ` João Távora [this message]
2020-11-18 5:58 ` Protesilaos Stavrou
2020-11-18 8:29 ` João Távora
2020-11-24 5:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-24 5:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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