GNU bug report logs - #10428
24.0.92; Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 22:54:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.0.92

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 10428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> dancol.org>
Cc: 10428 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10428: 24.0.92;
	Please remove unnecessary alias `which-func-mode`
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 00:53:19 +0100

On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 00:48, Daniel Colascione <dancol <at> 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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