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From: kifer@CS.SunySB.EDU (Michael Kifer)
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Subject: annoying compiler messages
Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 15:24:55 -0500
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Since the time mode-line-format, modify-frame-parameters and all that has
been made obsolete, xemacs compiler's mesages have become less than useful
for packages that try to be compatible with both emacsen (so they are
forced to use these comands). This is because:

** mode-line-format is an obsolete variable; use modeline-format instead.
** modify-frame-parameters is an obsolete function; use set-frame-properties instead.

constitute 90% of the messages (e.g., while compiling ediff).

Is it hard to change the compiler so that that every message gets output at
most once?

The problem right now is that it is hard to spot genuine warnings in the
sea of bogus warnings.


	--michael  

