It's kinda late. So I make it quick: How to setup an emacs with Syntax check when you write golang script.

In linux of course.

(require 'go-mode-load) (require 'flymake) (autoload 'flymake-find-file-hook "flymake" "" t) (add-hook 'find-file-hook 'flymake-find-file-hook) (setq flymake-gui-warnings-enabled nil) (setq flymake-log-level 0) (defun flymake-golang-init () (defadvice flymake-save-buffer-in-file ;;;;fix for my goscript usage (around flymake-save-buffer-in-file-golang-fix (file-name) activate) (make-directory (file-name-directory file-name) 1) (save-excursion (goto-char 0) (when (looking-at "^#!/.*goscript.*") (progn (forward-line 1) (forward-char -1))) (write-region (point) (point-max) file-name nil 566)) (flymake-log 3 "saved buffer %s in file %s" (buffer-name) file-name)) (let* ((temp-file (flymake-init-create-temp-buffer-copy 'flymake-create-temp-inplace)) (local-file (file-relative-name temp-file (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)))) ;; edit this if you use `8g'/`6g' other than my `cg' ;; #!/bin/bash ;; 6g $* ;; exit 0 (list "cg" (list "-o /dev/null" local-file)))) (setq flymake-allowed-file-name-masks (cons '(".+//.go$" flymake-golang-init flymake-simple-cleanup flymake-get-real-file-name) flymake-allowed-file-name-masks)) (defun flymake-display-current-error () "Display errors/warnings under cursor." (interactive) (let ((ovs (overlays-in (point) (1+ (point))))) (catch 'found (dolist (ov ovs) (when (flymake-overlay-p ov) (message (overlay-get ov 'help-echo)) (throw 'found t)))))) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c f") 'flymake-display-current-error) (global-set-key (kbd "C-c m") 'flymake-mode)