From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Riley Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 23, Python, epylint, pylint Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:35:57 +0200 Organization: aich tea tea pea dicky riley dot net Message-ID: References: <87ljj29vo0.wl%anselm.helbig+news2009@googlemail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256305039 1736 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2009 13:37:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:37:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 23 15:37:13 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N1KKA-0006r5-I9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:36:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N1KKA-0006pb-55 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:36:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N1KJl-0006p3-0s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:36:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N1KJg-0006nn-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:36:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44293 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N1KJf-0006nW-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:32918) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N1KJf-0002Cr-9P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:36:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N1KJc-0006Wg-JK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from 85.183.18.158 ([85.183.18.158]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:36:24 +0200 Original-Received: from rileyrgdev by 85.183.18.158 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:36:24 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 43 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.183.18.158 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:69171 Archived-At: Anselm Helbig writes: > At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:48:39 +0200, > Richard Riley wrote: >> >> Richard Riley writes: >> >> > [...] >> > >> > And successfully have pylint and emacs highlighting errors in my .py >> > files courtesy of flymake. The problem is that I can't see anywhere the >> > actually error description. Can anyone help please? >> > >> > [...] >> >> OK, its done so that you need to (yuck!) hover your mouse over the >> hilited error. Kind of in the face of keyboard driven emacs, but at >> least one can see the error. If anyone has a patch/fix/advice on how to >> change this to show the errors in a buffer and maybe next error/previous >> error then that would be great. In fact pylint.el does something like >> that but it would be nice in conjunction with the flymake dynamic code >> checking and error hiliting. > > While looking for a solution to this very problem I found out about > display-local-help, bound to `C-h .' here. Good enough for me, and no > configuration necessary. 8-) > > HTH, > > Anselm The flymake-cursor extension is the best! I'm still wondering about the design decision to only show the error if you hover the mouse however :-; Since it only appears in a lisp paste bucket at the moment, I duplicated it here http://tinyurl.com/yj6cf3x