Questions tagged [flymake]
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How do I disable a flymake backend?
I'm looking to follow this other answer regarding linting inside org-mode source code block but I'm not able to figure out how to tell flymake to disable certain backends.
I'm using Emacs 27.x

shackra
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disable built-in flymake completely
I'm running emacs-29.1 on ubuntu-23.10 (installed from https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ubuntuhandbook1/emacs/ubuntu/), and it has flymake built-in and default to running. There are similar questions for disabling it for specific backends or…

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How do you get flymake to use a temporary directory for its temp files?
Flymake makes a bunch of Foo_125113359859632_flymake.hs files in my src dirs, messing up grep, tab-completion, LSP etc. Is there some setting or feature to get it to put temporary files in /tmp or ~/.emacs.d/tmp?

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Configure Flymake for proselint
proselint is a prose linter which returns error/warning messages like this:
2020-09-09-still-processing.md:18:14: typography.symbols.curly_quotes Use curly quotes “”, not straight quotes "".
I know there is a proselint checker in Flycheck, but I am…

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Why does gnu.org flymake documentation is for version 0.3, but elpa.gnu.org has version 1.0.8 available?
I have Emacs 26.1 installed. It has a built-in package flymake version 0.3. Also, googling flymake gives me https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_mono/flymake.html as the second link in the search output. It looks like the main and the most…

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"error in process sentinel: not enough arguments for format string” with simple R code
Flymake started giving this warning today:
Error in process sentinel not enough arguments for format string
The mode line shows Flymake:Wait [0 0]. I narrowed down the code throwing the error to a few lines:
context("German Statlog credit…

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Using flymake with meson build system
Good morning,
I have been using flymake for a long time with autoconf/automake adding this at the end of the Makefile.am:
check-syntax:
$(CXXCOMPILE) -Wall -fsyntax-only $(CHK_SOURCES)
.PHONY: check-syntax
Now that I'm switching some projects…

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How to prevent flymake from littering temporary files
I want to stop Flymake from creating temporary files in the working directory. For example, here is the contents of a csharp source code directory that I am working on.
total used in directory 96K available 704.4 GiB
drwxrwxr-x 2 nate nate 4.0K…

firstname gklsodascb
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How do I get Flymake to work for SCSS mode?
I have flymake-sass working, but I can't get it to work for SCSS files. The source looks like it should work with SCSS, but when I try to enable it I get an error about scss-sass-options not being defined. After defining that as nil in .emacs it…

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