diff --git a/src/text.cpp b/src/text.cpp
index a68091e85..7fd2e869a 100644
--- a/src/text.cpp
+++ b/src/text.cpp
@@ -475,37 +475,6 @@ const char* optionalBlankLine ()
   return context.verbose ("blank") ? newline : noline;
 }
 
-////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
-void guess (
-  const std::string& type,
-  std::vector<std::string>& options,
-  std::string& candidate)
-{
-  std::vector <std::string> matches;
-  autoComplete (candidate, options, matches,
-                context.config.getInteger ("abbreviation.minimum"));
-  if (1 == matches.size ())
-    candidate = matches[0];
-
-  else if (0 == matches.size ())
-    candidate = "";
-
-  else
-  {
-    std::sort (matches.begin (), matches.end ());
-
-    std::string error = format (STRING_TEXT_AMBIGUOUS, type, candidate);
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < matches.size (); ++i)
-    {
-      if (i)
-        error += ", ";
-      error += matches[i];
-    }
-
-    throw error;
-  }
-}
-
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 bool nontrivial (const std::string& input)
 {
diff --git a/src/text.h b/src/text.h
index bb4aeb2ed..5e3596e7c 100644
--- a/src/text.h
+++ b/src/text.h
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ std::string ucFirst (const std::string&);
 const std::string str_replace (std::string&, const std::string&, const std::string&);
 const std::string str_replace (const std::string&, const std::string&, const std::string&);
 const char* optionalBlankLine ();
-void guess (const std::string&, std::vector<std::string>&, std::string&);
 bool nontrivial (const std::string&);
 bool digitsOnly (const std::string&);
 bool noSpaces (const std::string&);