diff --git a/degesch.c b/degesch.c
index 66a626a..9d31b5c 100644
--- a/degesch.c
+++ b/degesch.c
@@ -3025,18 +3025,6 @@ irc_to_utf8 (const char *text)
 	return str_steal (&s);
 }
 
-// This function is used to output debugging IRC traffic to the terminal.
-// It's far from ideal, as any non-UTF-8 text degrades the entire line to
-// ISO Latin 1.  But it should work good enough most of the time.
-static char *
-irc_to_term (struct app_context *ctx, const char *text)
-{
-	char *utf8 = irc_to_utf8 (text);
-	char *term = iconv_xstrdup (ctx->term_from_utf8, utf8, -1, NULL);
-	free (utf8);
-	return term;
-}
-
 // --- Output formatter --------------------------------------------------------
 
 // This complicated piece of code makes attributed text formatting simple.
@@ -13153,26 +13141,6 @@ app_editline_init (struct input_el *self)
 
 // --- Configuration loading ---------------------------------------------------
 
-static struct config_item *
-load_configuration_file (const char *filename, struct error **e)
-{
-	struct config_item *root = NULL;
-
-	struct str data = str_make ();
-	if (!read_file (filename, &data, e))
-		goto end;
-
-	struct error *error = NULL;
-	if (!(root = config_item_parse (data.str, data.len, false, &error)))
-	{
-		error_set (e, "Parsing `%s' failed: %s", filename, error->message);
-		error_free (error);
-	}
-end:
-	str_free (&data);
-	return root;
-}
-
 static const char *g_first_time_help[] =
 {
 	"",