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bug#51437: 29.0.50; The annotated example of a complete working Flymake
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Rudolf Adamkovič |
Subject: |
bug#51437: 29.0.50; The annotated example of a complete working Flymake backend does not work with narrowed buffers |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Nov 2021 23:41:08 +0100 |
João Távora <joaotavora@gmail.com> writes:
> This is starting to sound like a more generic Flymake limitation/bug
> than a documentation bug. I'll have a look when I get home.
True.
> Have you experimented with the 'region' arg when reporting back
> diagnostics? Also you can have a look at how the Elisp backend does
> it? I think, though I am not sure, that it works with narrowed
> buffers.
I did not dig that deep yet. :)
> By the way, Flymake for spell checking is a great idea. Is your
> backend available somewhere?
I use Vale to check on my writing (style and spelling) as follows:
┌────
│ (with-eval-after-load 'flymake
│ (my-define-flymake-backend
│ my-flymake-vale
│ (lambda (file) (list "vale" "--output" "line" "--ext" ".md" "--no-wrap"))
│ "^stdin.md:\\([0-9]+\\):\\([0-9]+\\):\\(.*\\)$"
│ (lambda (msg) t)))
└────
I dislike the idea of unnecessary "backend packages", and I think Flymake
should empower the user to plug in any CLI tool in a couple of minutes. No
packages, no complicated functions with `make-process', and so on. Instead,
make simple asynchronous live buffer checking simple. Then, everyone will plug
in their linters, unit test runners, style/spell-checkers, and the like. As of
now, Flymake fights such a user. For instance, I use the same macro for
everything else, including programming:
┌────
│ (with-eval-after-load 'flymake
│ (my-define-flymake-backend
│ my-flymake-swiftlint
│ 'my-flymake-swiftlint-command
│ "^<nopath>:\\([0-9]+\\):\\([0-9]+\\): \\(.*\\)$"
│ (lambda (msg) (string-match "^warning" msg))))
└────
TL;DR Vanilla Flymake makes it unnecesserily hard to plug in a simple CLI
utility for buffer checking.
Rudy
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