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25.2; support gcc fixit notes

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From: Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 25987 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Tom Tromey <tom <at> tromey.com>
Subject: bug#25987: 25.2; support gcc fixit notes
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:34:24 -0600

>>>>> "Dmitry" == Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru> writes:

Dmitry> Thinking along these lines, the closest things we have are Flymake and
Dmitry> Flyspell. The third-party Flycheck is even better is several respects
Dmitry> (e.g. it can show a listing of all problems in the file buffer), but
Dmitry> sadly we won't be able to use it, since the primary author is sternly
Dmitry> against copyright assignment.

It'd be great to evolve Flymake into something more like Flycheck.

Dmitry> But it'd be good to teach Flymake about fixits, and when we can't use
Dmitry> tooltips, use a text-based prompts a la Flyspell.

I think this would be a good addition, kind of like LSP mode; but also
not really necessary -- at least for me, I usually use M-x compile for C
and C++ projects, and some integration with next-error would be more
than sufficient.

Tom

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