Re: Orphaned symbols?

[sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer)]

On 13 Feb 2004, Jesper Harder <- harder@ifa.au.dk wrote:

> sigurd@12move.de (Karl Pflästerer) writes:

>> Is there no possibility to decide which variables could safely be
>> deleted?  Some of the vars I found aren't used anywhere; they make it
>> only harder to understand the code.  I also find a bunch of functions
>> which are only defined but never used

> I think the variables I listed are safe to delete.  But in general I
> don't think there's any way to determine it automatically.

ACK.  Because of that I posted them here instead of a big patch :-)

Maybe we could try it in small steps; always delete 5 wait some days and
remove the next 5.

> For example the function `mm-file-name-collapse-whitespace' isn't used
> anywhere -- but its purpose is that you can add it to the hook
> `mm-file-name-rewrite-functions', so it clearly shouldn't be removed.

Yes with functions it gets even harder to decide which one aren't used
anymore.


   KP

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