This is extension for Flycheck. If you're want to write code according to the Google C++ Style Guide, this will help a great deal. https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html I recommend that the package google-c-style also installed with. https://melpa.org/#/google-c-style For more infomations, please check the GitHub https://github.com/flycheck/flycheck-google-cpplint/ ;; Setup (eval-after-load 'flycheck '(progn (require 'flycheck-google-cpplint) ;; Add Google C++ Style checker. ;; In default, syntax checked by Clang and Cppcheck. (flycheck-add-next-checker 'c/c++-clang 'c/c++-googlelint 'append)))