Specialized compile mode for pylint. You may want to add the following to your init.el: (autoload 'pylint "pylint") (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'pylint-add-menu-items) (add-hook 'python-mode-hook 'pylint-add-key-bindings) There is also a handy command `pylint-insert-ignore-comment' that makes it easy to insert comments of the form `# pylint: ignore=msg1,msg2,...'.