LCLint can be used most productively with the emacs text editor. The release package includes emacs files for running LCLint and editing code with annotations.
LCLint release includes emacs/lclint.elc that defines an emacs command, M-x lclint, for running LCLint. To load this file, add this line to your .emacs file:
(load-file "<directory>/lclint.elc")
The M-x lclint command is similar to M-x compile, except it jumps to the exact column location of the error message, instead of the beginning of the line. After typing M-x lclint, you will be prompted for a compile command. Enter the command identically to the command that would be used to run LCLint from the command line. If errors are found, M-x next-lclint-error jumps to the point where the next error was found. (Note, this only works if +showcolumn is set to make LCLint include column numbers in error messages.)
The command can be bound to a key to enable rapid jumping through the error messages. For example, to set the key do CTRL-backslash add this line to your .emacs file:
(global-set-key "^\" 'next-lclint-error)
An additional file, emacs/lclint-abbrevs contains abbreviations for LCLint syntactic comments and annotations. If it is loaded, the comment surrounding an LCLint annotation will be added automatically. For example, typing "only" and a space, will produce "/*@only@*/ ". Abbreviations are provided for each LCLint syntactic comment. The abbreviation of /*@null@*/ is nll (not null), since it is often necessary to type NULL.
Abbreviations are loaded and used when a .c or .h file is edited by adding these lines to your .emacs file:
(quietly-read-abbrev-file "<directory>/lclint-abbrevs")
(setq c-mode-hook (function (lambda nil (abbrev-mode 1))))
