"deprecated" messages filling half the screen.

[mpolo]

Upon upgrading from 1.3.7 to 1.3.8 I have the problem that half the screen gets filled up with WML-debugging info warning me about the deprecated use of [animation] inside of the [attack] section. This occured for the Dwarvish Thunderguard and Dragonguard. Ah, I see the problem -- I was loading a save game from 1.3.7 and that WML was in the save file. (The actual config files are correct.)

It would be nice to be able to toggle the debugging help nonetheless, as it really does disrupt play.

[torangan]

They are supposed to be annoying so the actual problems really get fixed. If one can toggle it off, people will do that and nothing happens. New problems won't even be seen as you already toggled them off.
You might try to convince esr to update wmllint into updating save files as well if it doesn't already (for text saves).

[Iris]

What toragan said. Don't hide the dust under the carpet.

[mpolo]

The point is that if one isn't the author of the campaign, one isn't likely to go fix things... I suppose this would at least get people nagging him or her to fix it, though, so maybe it serves its purpose.

[turin]

You can always just change the number of lines of chat displayed to 1. Then it will only take up the top 5% of the screen instead of the top 50%.

[Rhuvaen]

Much more effective than reducing chat lines is the :clear command.

But don't tell Jack Bauer I told you about it!

[HaJo]

Much more effective .. is the :clear command.

Even more effective is the 'Hotkey for :clear',
see https://gna.org/patch/?770