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I use flycheck with flycheck-elisp-checkdoc checker active and find them fairly useful.

Still, I find it irritating to be nagged about missing (provide), section headers (;;; Code, ...), package metadata and similar things while I am editing my ~/emacs/etc (that's ~/.emacs split into smaller pieces). Those files are short configuration snippets and adding those comments would only make them longer and less readable.

So, what is the best way to disable those warnings in this very place (but only there, the same reminders are very useful once I edit my true lisp modules...)?

I do not really mind whether it would mean disabling flycheck-elisp-checkdoc checker for flycheck in this very dir, or reconfiguring checkdoc in this ery place, or something in-between – although the latter case would also handle other ways of spawning checkdoc…

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Reset to default
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Set flycheck-disabled-checkers to (emacs-lisp-checkdoc) via file or directory variables, i.e. M-x add-file-local-variable RET flycheck-disabled-checkers RET (emacs-lisp-checkdoc) or add-dir-local-variable RET emacs-lisp-mode RET flycheck-disabled-checkers RET (emacs-lisp-checkdoc) respectively.

See Syntax checkers in the Flycheck manual for more information.

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  • Thank you, it works. I knew about flycheck-disabled-checkers but forgot that it can be set via dir-locals.
    – Mekk
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 14:52
  • (still curious whether sth similar can be configured also for M-x checkdoc, but that's not that important)
    – Mekk
    Commented Apr 22, 2015 at 14:54
  • Turns out there is minor annoyance in this solution. Whenever I start emacs, I get warning Warning (emacs): Failed to load file /home/marcink/DEV_hg/emacs/etc/.dir-locals.el: (invalid-function (emacs-lisp-mode (flycheck-disabled-checkers emacs-lisp-checkdoc))) (flycheck is loaded by one of those etc files, but looks like .dir-locals is interpreted when they are processed).
    – Mekk
    Commented Apr 25, 2015 at 6:47
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    Of course I have such code, that's the point of using this dir... Ahh, you mean my code reads .dir-locals.el too? Will take a look
    – Mekk
    Commented Apr 25, 2015 at 12:03
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    Yes, good point, my loop iterated over any .el files in etc directory, so catched .dir-locals.el too. Thank you for hint.
    – Mekk
    Commented Apr 28, 2015 at 9:53

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