How to avoid showing gofmt fail error when saving go code every time in Emacs

Question

Using Spacemacs and its go layer.

Using Tramp in Emacs ssh to remote server to edit go file. After saving the file, it will check the syntax with gofmt . But every time it shows the error below:

I have tried install these packages at localhost as official guide:

go get -u -v github.com/nsf/gocode
go get -u -v github.com/rogpeppe/godef
go get -u -v golang.org/x/tools/cmd/guru
go get -u -v golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gorename
go get -u -v golang.org/x/tools/cmd/goimports

go get -u -v github.com/alecthomas/gometalinter
gometalinter --install --update

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/tree/master/layers/%2Blang/go

Also set (go :variables go-use-gometalinter t)(or (setq gofmt-command "goimports")) in the ~/.spacemacs file. But not work. Indeed, there aren't go runtime at remote server where go source exist. So where it looking for and went a alert? How to avoid it?

Answer 1

Currently go-mode doesn't support running goimports on a remote host (over tramp). If you just want to stop the error you can disable the before-save-hook that is invoking gofmt:

(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'gofmt-before-save)