Re: Emacs 23, Python, epylint, pylint

[Anselm Helbig]

At Thu, 22 Oct 2009 03:48:39 +0200,
Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > [...]
> >
> > And successfully have pylint and emacs highlighting errors in my .py
> > files courtesy of flymake. The problem is that I can't see anywhere the
> > actually error description. Can anyone help please?
> >
> > [...]
> 
> OK, its done so that you need to (yuck!) hover your mouse over the
> hilited error. Kind of in the face of keyboard driven emacs, but at
> least one can see the error. If anyone has a patch/fix/advice on how to
> change this to show the errors in a buffer and maybe next error/previous
> error then that would be great. In fact pylint.el does something like
> that but it would be nice in conjunction with the flymake dynamic code
> checking and error hiliting.

While looking for a solution to this very problem I found out about
display-local-help, bound to `C-h .' here. Good enough for me, and no
configuration necessary. 8-)

HTH, 

Anselm


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