Getting emacs flymake.el to work with C# modules

re: Getting flymake.el to work with C# modules

John Connors — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:29:17 GMT

In all that time no-one has hacked on flymake to improve it? There must be a serious shortage of elisp hackers.

I've been using C++ not C# and have been winging it with a mixture of etags/hippie-expand/ecb/cedet. It works, mostly.

re: Getting flymake.el to work with C# modules

DotNetInterop — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:38:53 GMT

No, no,no, Flymake.el is being actively maintained by the fella who is named in the el file. It's being improved, although I don't know the details. I'm just saying it is not as modular as I would like to see.

Elisp is sort of a niche, hm? Anyway I shot a mail to Pavel and we'll see if he has the time and interest to pursue some of the suggestions I made. I tried to take a broader view and suggest that all languages in flymake be supported by the same extensibility or customization mechanisms. Rather than having it default to C compiles, and then doing something special for everything that is not C (ruby, python, C#, tex, etc), what I suggested was having the entire thing be pluggable, where each support in flymakr for a language is defined in terms of a handful of override or extension methods.

we'll see where that goes.

Dino's .emacs file

All About Interop — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:24:10 GMT

[I'm going to try to keep this up to date, because I periodically change tweak and improve flymake setup...

C# Code Completion in emacs - a look at Cedet, semantic, and CSDE

All About Interop — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:15:18 GMT

In my prior post I wrote that I have a dream of getting c# code completion in emacs. Jason Rumney wrote

re: Getting emacs flymake.el to work with C# modules

Timothy Jones — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:49:19 GMT

I just use the following with the standard package:

(require 'flymake)

(defun my-flymake-simple-make-init ()

(basic-save-buffer-1)

(list "MSBuild.exe" (list "/nologo" "/verbosity:quiet")))

(setq flymake-allowed-file-name-masks

(cons '(".+\\.cs$"

my-flymake-simple-make-init

flymake-simple-cleanup

flymake-get-real-file-name)

flymake-allowed-file-name-masks))

I set up my projects using Visual Studio, and have emacs configured as an external tool I can hop over to quickly.

drawbacks: it saves the buffer every time you change it

benefits: it just works, no need to set up (and maintain) another project file just for flymake.

re: Getting emacs flymake.el to work with C# modules

Timothy Allen Jones — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:52:13 GMT

Oh, I also have these defined to pick up the error messages:

(require 'compile)

(push '("^\$.*\$(\$[0-9]+\$,\$[0-9]+\$): error" 1 2 3 ) compilation-error-regexp-alist)

(push '("^\$.*\$(\$[0-9]+\$,\$[0-9]+\$): warning" 1 2 3 ) compilation-error-regexp-alist)