Re: Three Flymake backends Was Re: Two issues with the new Flymake

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 11/5/17 3:22 PM, João Távora wrote:

> I think the doors are still open for the "sooner" case :-) I don't have
> rubucop, but defining new backends of the
> "feed-to-stdin-then-parse-with-regexp" type is really easy (and of
> really verbose, but we're trying to fix that)

OK, I'll keep that in mind. :)

> > Although the other option, I think, is for the said function to return
> > a lambda. The return value could be used with `defalias' or with
> > `add-hook' directly.
>
> All of this is more verbose than the relatively standard way of using
> "define" macros.
>
> And add-hook for lambda's is not very nice imo because there isn't a
> easy way to remove-hook afterwards.

The defalias way should be all right with remove-hook, though.

I'm in the "don't create new macros unless it's _really_ beneficial" 
camp, though it might be in the minority here.