Bug#796652: RFP: flycheck -- Modern on the fly syntax checking for GNU Emacs
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
* Package name : flycheck
Version : 0.24
Upstream Author : Sebastian Wiesner <me@lunaryorn.com>
* URL : http://www.flycheck.org
* License : GPL-3+
Programming Lang: elisp
Description : Modern on the fly syntax checking for GNU Emacs
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.
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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:
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Features
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* Supports over 30 programming and markup languages with more than 60 different syntax checking tools
* Fully automatic, fail-safe, on-the-fly syntax checking in background
* Nice error indication and highlighting
* Optional error list popup
* Many customization options
* Comprehensive documentation
* A simple interface to define new syntax checkers
* A “doesn’t get in your way” guarantee
* Many 3rd party extensions
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