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"error in process sentinel" whenever using %>% in an ESS R buffer

Whenever I include a pipe (%>%) in a ESS R buffer, I start getting the following error repeatedly, with lags that make editing almost impossible: error in process sentinel: Not enough arguments ...
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Why does (setopt ...) not give "assignment to free variable" warning, unlike setq and customize-set-variable?

I'm using Emacs 29.0.60 If I open emacs -q, open a Emacs Lisp buffer with FlyMake enabled and type this: ;;; init.el --- summary ;;; Commentary: ;;; Code: (setq var1 2) (customize-set-variable var2 ...
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how do I get Flymake to recognize files in my load-path?

when running Flymake against ~/.emacs, I see errors complaining about missing files like "powerline" and "company" - i.e. stuff contained in load-path. How can I configure Flymake's elisp backend to ...
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What options are out there for quick-fix type functionality in emacs?

When using flycheck or flymake, it would be nice to have quick fix functionality which gives suggested fixes and automatically applies them when selected like most IDE's provide. So far the only ...
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disable built-in flymake completely

I'm running emacs-29.1 on ubuntu-23.10 (installed from https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ubuntuhandbook1/emacs/ubuntu/), and it has flymake built-in and default to running. There are similar questions ...
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Wrong type argument: proper-list-p in Flymake example

I'm implementing my own Flymake backend while following the annotated example from the Emacs manual: GNU Flymake 1.2.2. What I've implemented works perfectly within Emacs, however, when I try to batch-...
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Flymake: how can I modify/ignore syntax and styling rules?

This question was asked before here, but the solution doesn't work. It could be because I am not restarting flymake correctly. The question is: how to have flymake ignore certain errors and warnings? ...
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Flymake colouring?

I've recently updated my Emacs from 26 to 27, and now the Flymake error indicators are very hard to see - they're now in a very pale rose instead of crimson red. How can I change the colour back? I've ...
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Flymake stopped working with elpy...no idea what I did or didn't do [Windows]

I installed elpy, along with jedi, rope and got it to work briefly yesterday after uninstalling python and reinstalling it with anaconda and setting the environment variable to path. I tinkered around ...
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Detect a region in markdown and run a compilation

It would be really useful if emacs could detect the cursor is currently inside a code-block in my markdown-file and compiles the fragment automatically. I am editing a large markdown file with a lot ...
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Eglot toggle flymake diagnostics with keyboard shortcut

I've successfully got eglot working, and I love using it for things like xref in my rust projects. As I'm writing code, I don't like having diagnostics pop up as I'm typing, but sometimes I'd like to ...
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How can I continuously check semantic error with rust-analyser instead of upon saving only?

I'm using eglot with flymake and rust-analyzer. However, it seems to only check errors when I save the file: d() is a non-existing function. It doesn't show any error, until I save the file: Ideally ...
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Using flymake with meson build system

Good morning, I have been using flymake for a long time with autoconf/automake adding this at the end of the Makefile.am: check-syntax: $(CXXCOMPILE) -Wall -fsyntax-only $(CHK_SOURCES) .PHONY: ...
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error in process sentinel: Invalid file-name during replacing words

I am getting following error error in process sentinel: Invalid file-name due to generated _flymake.py files, when I am following approach for the recursively find and replace in text files not ...
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