I've had this patch sitting in my tree for a while now, and it works well. It allows emacs users to install flymake-mode (flymake.sf.net), which silently checks your syntax in the background. Lines with errors or warnings in are highlighted in pastel shades :) You need the following patch to flymake-mode (should be in the next release) to make it work on Linux: --- flymake.el~ 2003-09-23 23:48:48.000000000 +0100 +++ flymake.el 2003-09-24 17:16:22.000000000 +0100 @ -381,7 +381,7 @@ (to (flymake-fix-path-name to-dir)) (prefix (flymake-get-common-prefix from to)) (from-suffix (substring from (length prefix))) - (up-count (length (split-string from-suffix "[/]"))) + (up-count (- (length (split-string from-suffix "[/]")) 1)) (to-suffix (substring to (length prefix))) (idx 0) (rel nil)) @@ -404,7 +404,10 @@ (setq rel (concat rel to-suffix)) ) - rel + (if (equal rel nil) + "./" + ;; else + rel) ) ) ) And here is the actual patch against wine to support it: Index: Make.rules.in =================================================================== RCS file: /home/wine/wine/Make.rules.in,v retrieving revision 1.163 diff -u -r1.163 Make.rules.in --- Make.rules.in 11 Oct 2003 01:05:18 -0000 1.163 +++ Make.rules.in 18 Oct 2003 15:59:09 -0000 @@ -260,6 +260,13 @@ .PHONY: check test crosstest $(SUBDIRS:%=%/__test__) $(SUBDIRS:%=%/__crosstest__) +# Rules for syntax checking + +check-syntax: + $(MAKE) syntax-target CFLAGS="-fsyntax-only" + +syntax-target: $(SOURCES:.c=.o) + # Misc. rules $(MC_SRCS:.mc=.mc.rc): $(WMC) Trivial huh? I know it's kind of emacs specific, but we already support tags, so could this go in? thanks -mike
