This packages integrates cstyle with flycheck to automatically check the style of your C/C++ code on the fly. ;; Setup (eval-after-load 'flycheck '(progn (require 'flycheck-cstyle) (flycheck-cstyle-setup) ;; chain after cppcheck since this is the last checker in the upstream ;; configuration (flycheck-add-next-checker 'c/c++-cppcheck '(warning . cstyle)))) If you do not use cppcheck then chain after clang / gcc / other C checker that you use (flycheck-add-next-checker 'c/c++-clang '(warning . cstyle))