From maintainers-request at octave dot org Wed Dec  7 19:54:48 2005
Subject: Re: message ids for warnings and errors
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
Cc: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 20:54:41 -0500

On  7-Dec-2005, Paul Kienzle wrote:

| Few of these names can be guessed from the text of the
| warning, but the text of the warning is all that the
| user sees.
| 
| We could allow something like:
| 
|     warning off 'empty list elements'
| 
| to suppress the warning message containing the string
| 'empty list elements'.  Unfortunately this won't work
| so well with internationalization.
| 
| Any other suggestions?

In Matlab, "warning on verbose" results in warning printing an
additional message about how to disable warnings.  The message id for
the warning is displayed.

jwe