flycheck-mercury

https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck-mercury.git

git clone 'git://github.com/flycheck/flycheck-mercury.git'
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flycheck-mercury

This library provides a Flycheck checker for the logic / functional programming language Mercury using the Melbourne Mercury Compiler. See here for the reasons why it is not directly part of the flycheck codebase.

mmc provides an errorcheck-only mode where it only displays errors and warning without doing any compilation.

Emacs Screenshot with flycheck-mercury

Installation

flycheck-mercury is available as Emacs 24 package on MELPA.

If you want to install the version from github, first ensure that flycheck is installed, then download this code and add the directory to your Emacs load-path.

(add-to-list 'load-path
   "path-to-flycheck-mercury")

Add to your .emacs:

(eval-after-load 'flycheck
  '(require 'flycheck-mercury))

Make sure that the mmc binary is present on Emacs' exec-path and can be executed.

Usage

When flycheck is enabled (e.g. with global-flycheck-mode), Mercury buffers will be automatically checked using this checker if you have prolog-mode with support for Mercury installed.

mercury-mmc does not create any files, this includes interface files (*.int, *.int{0,2,3}) which are required to correctly identify type information etc. However, it will supply the option -I to mmc in order to search for interface files in the directories contained in the list flycheck-mmc-interface-dirs. These directories are relative to the position of the file to check. If interfaces are reported as missing that actually exist, it should be sufficient to add their location relative to the checked file to the buffer-local variable flycheck-mmc-interface-dirs,

(setq-default 'flycheck-mmc-interface-dirs '("<interface-directories>"))

This list defaults to ("Mercury/ints" "Mercury/int0s" "Mercury/int2s" Mercury/int3s"), i.e., the directory structure created by mmc --make.

So, in order to make mercury-mmc recognize any newly added predicate, you must first create its corresponding interface files, e.g., by launching a compilation of your program.

Output

mercury-mmc uses all three levels of error reporting: error for things which prevent correct compilation, warning for things like unused variables etc. which does not prevent compilation and info for inferred type signatures.

User Options

The user options are defined via buffer-local variables. To change their default value for new buffers use:

(setq-default <variable> <new-value>)

flycheck-mmc-max-message-width defines the maximal length of a message line. If the specified value is strictly positive, the line is truncated to this length and ... is added at the end (using s-truncate). A value less than or equal to 0 has no effect. The default value is 0.

flycheck-mmc-max-message-lines defines the maximal number of message lines for a single source line. If the specified value is strictly positive, the messages are limited to this number of lines and ... is added as final line. A value less than or equal to 0 has no effect. The default value is 0.

flycheck-mmc-report-inferred defines whether type/mode/determinism inference (via --infer-all) is reported on info level. The default value is t.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.