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bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend
From: |
João Távora |
Subject: |
bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend |
Date: |
Tue, 17 Nov 2020 16:30:59 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2020/11/16
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/11/16
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2020/11/17
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, João Távora, 2020/11/17
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2020/11/17
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend,
João Távora <=
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2020/11/18
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, João Távora, 2020/11/18
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/11/24
- bug#44689: 28.0.50; Use appropriate face for Flymake unknown backend, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/11/24