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From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: 10428@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:59:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F03965C.7090401@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SQt8fTyHqAiDBaWkb8TpWKhabZagv8QcxAOkiptvWjeXQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/3/2012 3:53 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 00:48, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
> 
>> It's still annoying to have which-func-mode show up as an interactive
>> command.
> 
> Not to the people used to the old name... That's the whole point of
> having an obsolete alias, instead of just renaming the function.

I thought the point was to not break existing _code_. Making people
change what they physically type isn't only acceptable, but desired:
this way, we raise awareness of the new name.

>> Is it somehow possible to define an alias to a command that is
>> not itself a command?
> 
> Not currently. The interactivity does not depend of the name. It's a
> property of the function itself.

I thought so. Maybe we should have commandp return nil for obsolete
symbols. (which-func-mode isn't currently marked obsolete, but it can be
easily enough.) make-obsolete already sets the byte-obsolete-info symbol
property, which we could inspect easily enough.





  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-03 23:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-03 22:50 bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode` Drew Adams
2012-01-03 23:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-03 23:48   ` Daniel Colascione
2012-01-03 23:53     ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-03 23:59       ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2012-01-04  1:03         ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-04  1:27           ` Leo
2012-01-04  1:31             ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-04  1:59               ` Leo
2012-01-03 23:56   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-04  0:57     ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-05  4:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-07  0:26       ` Juanma Barranquero

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