Re: How to disable flymake in tramp buffers

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Gary <help-gnu-emacs@garydjones.name> writes:

> It is a known problem with flymake when opening files on a remote
> host. It uses the wrong function to start the checking process, I
> believe. Michael Albinus knows more than I do, it was one of his posts I
> found explaining it :) - see

IIRC, I've asked for a bug report. Nobody did report, consequently
nobody did work on it.

However, the change is not risky. I have committed the following patch
to the Emacs 23 branch:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
*** /usr/local/src/emacs-23/lisp/progmodes/flymake.el.~99985~"	2010-08-18 20:19:10.536199643 +0200
--- /usr/local/src/emacs-23/lisp/progmodes/flymake.el	2010-08-18 16:44:18.545857439 +0200
***************
*** 1152,1158 ****
  	  (when dir
  	    (let ((default-directory dir))
  	      (flymake-log 3 "starting process on dir %s" default-directory)))
! 	  (setq process (apply 'start-process "flymake-proc" (current-buffer) cmd args))
  	  (set-process-sentinel process 'flymake-process-sentinel)
  	  (set-process-filter process 'flymake-process-filter)
            (push process flymake-processes)
--- 1152,1159 ----
  	  (when dir
  	    (let ((default-directory dir))
  	      (flymake-log 3 "starting process on dir %s" default-directory)))
! 	  (setq process (apply 'start-file-process
! 			       "flymake-proc" (current-buffer) cmd args))
  	  (set-process-sentinel process 'flymake-process-sentinel)
  	  (set-process-filter process 'flymake-process-filter)
            (push process flymake-processes)
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Could somebody, please, check, whether this is TRT? I do not use flymake.

Best regards, Michael.