Function: warn

warn is an autoloaded and byte-compiled function defined in warnings.el.gz.

Signature

(warn MESSAGE &rest ARGS)

Documentation

Display a warning message made from (format-message MESSAGE ARGS...).

Aside from generating the message with format-message, this is equivalent to display-warning, using emacs as the type and :warning as the level.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 22.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/warnings.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun warn (message &rest args)
  "Display a warning message made from (format-message MESSAGE ARGS...).
Aside from generating the message with `format-message',
this is equivalent to `display-warning', using
`emacs' as the type and `:warning' as the level."
  (display-warning 'emacs (apply #'format-message message args)))