Re: non-interactive usage and color error messages

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Monday 26 October 2009 07:15:24 Petr Mikulik wrote:
> > > > Every message that is generated by 
> > > >   fprintf(stderr,ERROR_NOTICE(foo))
> > > > should be changed to use int_warn() instead.
> > > 
> > > Good idea. These ERROR_NOTICEs are actually warnings only, not errors. I've 
> > > tried to patch this replacement in color.c and graphics.c, it works fine.
> > 
> > I am inclined to agree that warning "this terminal does not support..."
> > is not very useful.  Maybe we should jusr remove these altogether.

I have removed them, and changed the remaining ERROR_NOTICE instances
to call int_warn() instead.  I did the same for the small number of warnings
sent directly to stderr by term.c and axis.c.

I leave it to you if you want to experiment with making int_warn() 
output condition on    if (interactive)  or some other controlling flag.

-- 
Ethan A Merritt