From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode` Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:48:34 -0800 Message-ID: <4F0393D2.2030106@dancol.org> References: <014129A6420D41638EDA8023DEE4C0BC@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325634531 32735 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2012 23:48:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 23:48:51 +0000 (UTC) To: 10428@debbugs.gnu.org, lekktu@gmail.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 04 00:48:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE62-0002kj-5t for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:48:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56120 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE61-0007TD-RT for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:48:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40170) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE5y-0007Sw-MJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:48:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE5x-0004PW-O2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:48:42 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:36116) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE5x-0004PS-Jj for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:48:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE9C-0005to-7R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:52:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Daniel Colascione Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:52:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10428 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10428-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10428.132563472122669 (code B ref 10428); Tue, 03 Jan 2012 23:52:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10428) by debbugs.gnu.org; 3 Jan 2012 23:52:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE9A-0005ta-Tw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:52:01 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([96.126.100.184]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE97-0005tQ-UE for 10428@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:51:58 -0500 Original-Received: from c-24-18-179-193.hsd1.wa.comcast.net ([24.18.179.193] helo=[0.0.0.0]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1RiE5r-0001At-SB; Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:48:35 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.4 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:52:02 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:55387 Archived-At: 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 > > * 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?