From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
To: 10428@debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com
Subject: bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:48:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0393D2.2030106@dancol.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SQE6NfF4jrBnEpmDmW_UdJM5dP+wPOEaws=2yTVfUFZVQ@mail.gmail.com>
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?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-03 23:48 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 [this message]
2012-01-03 23:53 ` Juanma Barranquero
2012-01-03 23:59 ` Daniel Colascione
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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