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+## Copyright (C) 2013 Rik Wehbring
+##
+## This file is part of Octave.
+##
+## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at
+## your option) any later version.
+##
+## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+## General Public License for more details.
+##
+## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+## along with Octave; see the file COPYING.  If not, see
+## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+## -*- texinfo -*-
+## @deftypefn {Built-in Function} {} re_read_readline_init_file (@var{file})
+## This function has been deprecated.  Use
+## @code{@file{readline_re_read_init_file}} instead.
+## @seealso{readline_read_init_file}
+## @end deftypefn
+
+## Deprecated in 3.8
+
+function re_read_readline_init_file (varargin)
+
+  persistent warned = false;
+  if (! warned)
+    warned = true;
+    warning ("Octave:deprecated-function",
+             "re_read_readline_init_file is obsolete and will be removed from a future version of Octave, please use readline_re_read_init_file instead");
+  endif
+
+  readline_re_read_init_file (varargin{:});
+
+endfunction
+