* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
@ 2012-01-03 22:50 Drew Adams
2012-01-03 23:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2012-01-03 22:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 10428
Why was this alias defined? Is there a good reason for it? This is a
bad precedent to set. Unless there is a _particular_ reason to do this
for this command (and not for umpteen other Emacs commands), please
remove this seemingly gratuitous alias.
In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2011-12-06 on MARVIN
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (4.6) --no-opt --cflags
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libXpm-3.5.8/src
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/libpng-dev_1.4.3-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/zlib-dev_1.2.5-2/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/giflib-4.1.4-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/jpeg-6b-4/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/tiff-3.8.2-1/include
-ID:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-2.10.1/include --ldflags
-LD:/devel/emacs/libs/gnutls-2.10.1/lib'
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* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
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 23:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2012-01-03 23:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Drew Adams; +Cc: 10428-done
> Why was this alias defined? Is there a good reason for it? This is a
> bad precedent to set. Unless there is a _particular_ reason to do this
> for this command (and not for umpteen other Emacs commands), please
> remove this seemingly gratuitous alias.
2001-06-26 Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
* which-func.el (which-func-maxout): Increase default to 500000.
(which-function-mode): This is now the "real" name of the function.
(which-func-mode): Now an alias.
(which-func-mode-global): Name deleted.
So the function was called which-func-mode, then renamed to
which-function-mode, and the old name kept for compatibility.
It took me all of a grep in lisp\ChangeLog* to find it ;-)
Juanma
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2012-01-03 23:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
@ 2012-01-03 23:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-01-03 23:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-03 23:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1 sibling, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Colascione @ 2012-01-03 23:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 10428, lekktu
On 1/3/2012 3:42 PM, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>> Why was this alias defined? Is there a good reason for it? This is a
>> bad precedent to set. Unless there is a _particular_ reason to do this
>> for this command (and not for umpteen other Emacs commands), please
>> remove this seemingly gratuitous alias.
>
> 2001-06-26 Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>
> * which-func.el (which-func-maxout): Increase default to 500000.
> (which-function-mode): This is now the "real" name of the function.
> (which-func-mode): Now an alias.
> (which-func-mode-global): Name deleted.
>
> So the function was called which-func-mode, then renamed to
> which-function-mode, and the old name kept for compatibility.
>
> It took me all of a grep in lisp\ChangeLog* to find it ;-)
It's still annoying to have which-func-mode show up as an interactive
command. Is it somehow possible to define an alias to a command that is
not itself a command?
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* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
2012-01-03 23:48 ` Daniel Colascione
@ 2012-01-03 23:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-03 23:59 ` Daniel Colascione
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2012-01-03 23:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Colascione; +Cc: 10428
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.
> 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.
Juanma
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* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
2012-01-03 23:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
@ 2012-01-03 23:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2012-01-04 1:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Colascione @ 2012-01-03 23:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Juanma Barranquero; +Cc: 10428
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.
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* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
2012-01-03 23:59 ` Daniel Colascione
@ 2012-01-04 1:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-04 1:27 ` Leo
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2012-01-04 1:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniel Colascione; +Cc: 10428
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 00:59, Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org> wrote:
> I thought the point was to not break existing _code_.
That's an interactive command. How it is used in lisp code is somewhat
less relevant.
> Making people
> change what they physically type isn't only acceptable, but desired:
> this way, we raise awareness of the new name.
Sometimes two names are just alternatives. And which-func-mode is shorter.
> I thought so. Maybe we should have commandp return nil for obsolete
> symbols.
I think you're thinking of `command-and-not-obsolete-p'... Which is to
say, I don't think changing the semantics of commandp is a good idea.
> make-obsolete already sets the byte-obsolete-info symbol
> property, which we could inspect easily enough.
And which is already done by the code that needs the info, like
`describe-function-1', `semantic-emacs-lisp-obsoleted-doc' and
`mh-make-local-hook'.
Juanma
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* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
2012-01-04 1:03 ` Juanma Barranquero
@ 2012-01-04 1:27 ` Leo
2012-01-04 1:31 ` Juanma Barranquero
0 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Leo @ 2012-01-04 1:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 10428
On 2012-01-04 09:03 +0800, Juanma Barranquero wrote:
>> change what they physically type isn't only acceptable, but desired:
>> this way, we raise awareness of the new name.
>
> Sometimes two names are just alternatives. And which-func-mode is shorter.
For such a public-facing command, an alias only creates confusion. I
have literally checked out which-func-mode because it showed up in
completion and I was curious how it differs from which-function-mode.
Leo
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* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
2012-01-03 23:42 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-03 23:48 ` Daniel Colascione
@ 2012-01-03 23:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2012-01-04 0:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-05 4:59 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2012-01-03 23:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 10428; +Cc: lekktu
Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com> writes:
> So the function was called which-func-mode, then renamed to
> which-function-mode, and the old name kept for compatibility.
Perhaps `which-func-mode' should be marked as obsolete, so that it can
be removed in Emacs 24.2?
--
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* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
2012-01-03 23:56 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2012-01-04 0:57 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-05 4:59 ` Stefan Monnier
1 sibling, 0 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Juanma Barranquero @ 2012-01-04 0:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 10428
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 00:56, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
> Perhaps `which-func-mode' should be marked as obsolete
I suppose that'd be OK.
> so that it can be removed in Emacs 24.2?
Too soon after obsoletion, I think.
Juanma
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* bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
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
1 sibling, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2012-01-05 4:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 10428, lekktu
>> So the function was called which-func-mode, then renamed to
>> which-function-mode, and the old name kept for compatibility.
> Perhaps `which-func-mode' should be marked as obsolete, so that it can
> be removed in Emacs 24.2?
It should indeed be marked as obsolete and turned into a non-interactive
function (i.e. not an alias any more).
M-x which-func-mode RET will still work thanks to
partial-completion anyway.
Stefan
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