>From b1c894069483adf39b5f4d1f0cdd8f1aeecb87e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2018 10:28:14 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] * lisp/subr.el (flatten-list): Remove.

---
 etc/NEWS     | 6 ++----
 lisp/subr.el | 4 ----
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 327276eef9..9c6401d204 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1360,10 +1360,8 @@ are implemented in C using the Jansson library.
 'ring-resize' can be used to grow or shrink a ring.
 
 +++
-** New function 'flatten-tree'.
-'flatten-list' is provided as an alias. These functions take a tree
-and 'flatten' it such that the result is a list of all the terminal
-nodes.
+** New function 'flatten-tree' returns a "flattened" copy of a tree,
+such that the result is a list of all the terminal nodes.
 
 ** Mailcap
 
diff --git a/lisp/subr.el b/lisp/subr.el
index c5004a539b..0bb04d5e0a 100644
--- a/lisp/subr.el
+++ b/lisp/subr.el
@@ -5466,8 +5466,4 @@ flatten-tree
     (if tree (push tree elems))
     (nreverse elems)))
 
-;; Technically, `flatten-list' is a misnomer, but we provide it here
-;; for discoverability:
-(defalias 'flatten-list 'flatten-tree)
-
 ;;; subr.el ends here
-- 
2.19.2