Re: Finding Unused Identifiers

[August Karlstrom]

B. T. Raven wrote:
> "Markus Triska" <triska@gmx.at> wrote in message
> news:4406fc36$0$11610$3b214f66@tunews.univie.ac.at...
>
> > Hi August,
> >
> > August Karlstrom wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Is there a way to find all unused identifiers in an Elisp file?
> >
> > There's no programmatic way.
> >
> > All the best,
> > Markus.
>
>
> I probably don't even understand the question 

I mean "forgotten" variables and functions that were never intended to 
be exported. I know that in Elisp all identifiers with file scope are 
exported, but it would be nice to at least have a list of all 
declared-but-never-used-in-the-same-file identifiers. That would give 
you an hint of what can safely be removed.

> but, out of curiosity I ran
> the following in *scratch*:
>
> (boundp 't)
> t
> (boundp t)
> t
> (boundp 'v31416)
> nil
>
>
> Why can't the file be loaded, tokenized, and then run the list of tokens
> against boundp? Or by "unused" do you mean something other than unbound?
>
> Ed


August

--
I am the "ILOVEGNU" signature virus. Just copy me to your
signature.  This email was infected under the terms of the GNU
General Public License.