Re: Finding Unused Identifiers

[Peter Tury]

On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 22:25:10 GMT, August Karlstrom wrote:

> 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.
> 

As the first easiest(?) step it might help if you generate a list of all
words what has only one instance in that file (and that instance is in an
outermost defvar...)? If the list would have a form what is usable in
compilation mode, then one could go throught it easily and check what
should really be removed...

Br,
P