Re: flycheck on Emacs24

[haines]

Thanks for the help. It led to find out about ELPA. While I was at 
it I also modularized my emacs init file. That all worked out nicely,
although it seems gnus init file is no longer auto-line wrapping.

But the bottom line is that I used ELPA to install flycheck. It 
seems to have succeeded at least to the extent it shows up as a minor 
mode when I display a file. How to use it I have yet to look into
because it does not produce the dramatic colored highlight of 
flymake (I see there is an ELPA package to colorize, and I may 
try that). 

I am worried a bit ELPA's compilation of the package. There was an
error that it was unable to activate package "f". The required package
"s-1.7.0" is unavailable. When I look at s.el, I find :

  s-buffer is an installed package.
  Status: Installed in 
     `/home/haines/.emacs.d/elpa/s-buffer-20130605.1424/'.
  Version: 20130605.1424
  Requires: s-1.6.0, noflet-0.0.3
  Summary: s operations for buffers
 
I see that flycheck is no longer displayed in ELPA's package list. 
I wonder if this is because it is installed? The error makes me 
also wonder if the flycheck that I managed to compile and install 
is fully functional, although off hand it seems to be working.

Haines