[erlang-questions] Emacs' Flymake for Erlang with Distel

[karol skocik]

This serves me pretty well:
http://github.com/ks/flymake-erl/blob/master/flymake-erl
and solves
>> It isn't suited for self-containing erlang projects like nitrogen
>> (It doesn't handle special paths)
by walking directories, locating Emakefiles and applying most specific
Emakefile applicable for file to compile.
It does not depend on Distel or anything else, but could be
straightforwardly integrated.

I didn't find spawning erlc a problem for me, but opinion on this
matter is surely a matter of taste.
The upside of spawning erlc is, that it's trivial and correct, delays
between saving a file and seeing mistakes
in Emacs buffer are short (couple hundreds of milisecs).

Karol

On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Moritz Ulrich
<ulrich.moritz@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Emacs for my daily Erlang programming. One tool I really
> like is Flymake, which checks if the file compiles on-the-fly. It also
> embeds the errors in the source-buffer as hidden comments.
>
> The erlang distribution contains a file for this: erlang-flymake.el in
> the lib/tools-*/ directory.
>
> However, the implementation of flymake isn't perfect for the following reasons:
> - It spawns a second process (erlc) after every save (this can be
> tweaked in flymake, but better implementations would just make an rpc
> to a running node)
> - It isn't suited for self-containing erlang projects like nitrogen
> (It doesn't handle special paths)
>
>
> My idea for fixing both of these would be rather simple: Implement
> erlang-flymake with Distel (Distributed Emacs Lisp)
> Distel is an emacs package to make rpc calls to erlang nodes. It's
> rather advanced and I think it can be used to implement this behavior.
>
> I would like to implement this, but I need some starting points:
>
> How can I compile a file with just an erlang command and get the
> output erlc would give me? (erlang:compile(MyFile) or something like
> this)
> Are there pitfalls?
>
> Oh, and please tell me if someone already implemented this :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Moritz Ulrich
>
> --
> Moritz Ulrich
> Programmer, Student, Almost normal Guy
>
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