Flycheck is a modern on-the-fly syntax-checking extension for GNU Emacs, intended as replacement for the older Flymake extension which is part of GNU Emacs. For a detailed comparison to Flymake see Flycheck versus Flymake. It uses various syntax checking and linting tools to automatically check the contents of buffers while you type, and reports warnings and errors directly in the buffer, or in an optional error list. Out of the box Flycheck supports over 40 different programming languages with more than 80 different syntax-checking tools, and comes with a simple interface to define new syntax checkers. Many 3rd party extensions provide new syntax checkers and other features like alternative error displays or mode line indicators. Flycheck needs GNU Emacs 24.3+, and works best on Unix systems. Windows users, please be aware that Flycheck does not support Windows officially, although it should mostly work fine on Windows.

Features

  • Windows support
  • Syntax checking tools
  • Select syntax checkers automatically
  • Configure syntax checkers
  • Change syntax checker executables
  • Tune error list display

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GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3)

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Operating Systems

Linux, Mac, Windows

Programming Language

Emacs-Lisp

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2022-10-11