2011/1/29 Philipp Stephani :

I think LuaTeX should aim for more sane output in general, similar to other non-TeX compilers. That means:

But LuaTeX isn't a compiler. :-)

- No printing of page numbers (already possible), file names (suggested in http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=535) and similar nonsense. People who are interested in which files are loaded can use the filename recorder. - All messages use file:line:message style, even those that come from \write or Lua print() or texio.write() - \scrollmode (i.e. no user interaction) by default - Primitives or Lua functions for printing errors, warnings and informational messages - Getting rid of \errhelp - Messages are never broken across lines; every message is exactly one line; newline chars in messages are converted to spaces - No continuation of messages - No log file - Error messages go to stderr - No banner

I find it really hard to take your requests seriously. You describe a program that behaves very different from what we have used for the last decades. And you give no compelling reason for the changes.

I don't think this has to be configurable. The current mess probably needs to stay for compatibility reasons, but a command line option --sane-output could be added that switches output to the sensible style GCC and most other compiler use.

And now I think you are trolling... Best Martin