How to fix this error? emacs.d/starter-kit.el: `flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either `cl-flet' or `cl-letf'

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I just installed the emacs-starter-kit into Debian Wheezy with the emacs-snapshot. I am getting and error:

Loading /home/felixdz/.emacs.d/starter-kit-registers.el (source)...done
loaded /home/felixdz/.emacs.d/starter-kit-registers.el
../.emacs.d/starter-kit.el: `flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either `cl-flet' or `cl-letf'.
Loading /home/felixdz/.emacs.d/starter-kit.el (source)...done
loaded /home/felixdz/.emacs.d/starter-kit.el
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Package assoc is obsolete!

How do I fix this error? I am a completer beginner with Emacs.

See also [Should `flet` be replaced with `cl-flet` or `cl-letf` ?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18895605/should-flet-be-replaced-with-cl-flet-or-cl-letf) — phils, Oct 03 '13 at 02:57

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 05 '13 at 05:54

It's not really an error, but a warning. And it's not aimed at you but at the package maintainers of some package that you load from the starter kit.

The point is that there's a vanilla Emacs 24.3, which doesn't give warnings, and then there are various libraries written for earlier versions of Emacs that you're using for Emacs 24.3. Hence the warnings.

It will still work for now, but probably when the next Emacs comes out the assoc package will produce an error instead of a warning like now.

You can choose now if you want the emacs-starter-kit or vanilla Emacs or something else. I learned my way from vanilla Emacs, doing the customizations myself.

So essentially I can just ignore it? – gluesniffmonkey Aug 05 '13 at 08:10 — gluesniffmonkey, Aug 05 '13 at 08:10
Exactly, or, if you're like me, switch to vanilla Emacs – abo-abo Aug 05 '13 at 08:53 — abo-abo, Aug 05 '13 at 08:53

How to fix this error? emacs.d/starter-kit.el: `flet' is an obsolete macro (as of 24.3); use either `cl-flet' or `cl-letf'

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