Perl and PHP continuous static analysis with Emacs Flymake

Sam Graham — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:54:00 GMT

I followed with interest the discussion and excitement last month in a few Perl blogs about people discovering Emacs Flymake.

Being a long-time Emacs user this seemed really interesting to me, but I don't tend to waste a huge amount of time making outright syntax errors.

What I really wanted was something like the static analysis that a modern IDE does for you while you type.

So I hooked up Perl::Critic and PHP_CodeSniffer to Flymake, and here's how you can too.

Sam's Blog > Static-analysis