robert-zaremba / flymake-go

An Emacs flymake handler for go-mode files

flymake-go

An Emacs flymake handler for go-mode files

Installing

Requirements

flymake-go requires gofmt which is bundled in standard go package.

Download file

Using package.el

package.el is a package manager module for Emacs. If you are not familiar with it I strongly recommend using it. On EmacsWiki is an instruction how to us it.

If you have MELPA repository activated then simply:

M-x package-install flymake-go

Otherwise download flymake-go.el and:

• move it into your site-lisp directory and byte-compile
• use package.el to handle managing this package: M-x package-install-file flymake-go.el

Update .emacs configuration file

Add to your .emacs

(eval-after-load "go-mode"
  '(require 'flymake-go))

Others

Flycheck

Flycheck essentially it's flymake done right.

I encourage you to give a try to flycheck. Read more

flymake-go's Issues

Not finding $GOPATH

Hello, I'm getting an error when trying to import files from my local Go workspace

I have my GOPATH set to /home/zovt/go, but when running checks it doesn't seem to be detecting that. I am also using fish, if that is any help. However, I'm manually importing the GOPATH environment variable with the exec-path-from-shell extension by @purcell.

not installable on melpa due to dep on flymake 0.4.13

see melpa/melpa#2824

Flymake version 0.4?

Maybe I'm missing something here, but the latest flymake version I can find is 0.3, yet this package requires 0.4. Is that correct?

error "Recursive `require' for feature `flymake-go'"

I used the installation instructions from the "Manually" section. After starting up, I get this error:

File mode specification error: (error "Recursive `require' for feature `flymake-go'")

It seems to me, this is the problem:

(eval-after-load "go-mode"
  '(require 'flymake-go))

Since the generated autoload file already requires flymake-go, this will then require it a second time.