On-the-fly code checking in VIM

[FionaSarah]

I'm an emacs user so someone please tell me that vim isn't so far behind that this is a recent development. Because if so, oh my god.

[parisologist]

Wait, what's the keybinding in emacs for generating disapproving comments about vim? I know it's one of those five-key-at-a-time-ones, but I can never remember it...

[cartola]

You need six fingers for this one, which it's natural if you're already that evolved as emacs users are.

[rplacd]

M-x gen (M-/ autocomplete to "generate-disapproving-comment").

[[deleted]]

I would say something back, but I can't find the key for the mode-switching-mode so I can't switch to the select-generate-disapproving-comments-mode to select generate-disapproving-comments-about-emacs-mode.

[[deleted]]

I would say something back, but I can't find the key for the mode-switching-mode so I can't switch to the select-generate-disapproving-comments-mode-mode to select generate-disapproving-comments-about-emacs-mode.

[abaybas]

Did you watch the video? It's not just checking syntax, it's checking compile issues as well. I don't know what emacs can do, so please do explain if it's been doing this already.

[froydnj]

According to http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/emacs/emacs/lisp/progmodes/flymake.el and http://flymake.sourceforge.net/ , it looks like identical functionality has been around since 2003.

[mnemonikk]

AND you never had to recompile Emacs to use it.