Am 14.03.2008 um 16:22 schrieb Thomas Aylott - subtleGradient:
I'm not exactly sure what all flymake does…
It's calling an external code validator while you are editing source code. Some people tend to find this annoying, others find it really useful.
I would be interested to know if such a thing is possible in TextMate: Essentially one has to repeatedly and asynchronously call a matching external validator after each edit (whereby one has to define what to count as "an edit", the most extreme strategy would be after every keystroke, but this could lead to too much load).
But a number of bundles have validation commands.
Sure, I am aware of e.g. PyCheckMate. flymake just uses tools like pyflakes or gcc to do the actual code validation, but you don't have to explicitly invoke it and – maybe more important – you don't have to remember to do it.
-Jojo