Subject: Re: bug#16573: 24.3; Auctex (11.87.2) in Elpa issues hundreds of warnings on compile

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:18:54 -0500

Tassilo Horn wrote:

> ;; Local Variables:
> ;; byte-compile-warnings: (free-vars unresolved)
> ;; End:
>
> That does indeed stop the unresolved function warnings but not the
> free-vars warnings.  Why not?

Personally I think this is bad practice.

Anyway, aren't you missing a "not":

   byte-compile-warnings: (not free-vars unresolved)

?

Note that this only works since Emacs 23.1.
In older Emacs it will at best have precisely the opposite effect to the
one you intend.