Subject: Re: bug#10428: 24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
From: Juanma Barranquero <[email-masked]>
To: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:42:02 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

> 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  <[email-masked]>

        * 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