bug#46331: provided-mode-derived-p doesn't work on aliases

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:

> On Sat, 6 Feb 2021 at 11:39, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
>  I think adding "MODES or their aliases" was a bit superfluous -- I think
>  it should be self-evident that that's what's meant here.  I didn't
>  remove that bit from the doc string, but I think adding it to
>  derived-mode-p isn't all that helpful.
>
> I agree, but I think it should be consistent between the two functions, 
> otherwise it
> looks as though they work differently. (If one is reading only the 
> docstrings, not
> looking at the code.)

That's true.  So I've now removed the "or their aliases" from the doc
string.

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