diff --git a/base/docs/helpdb/Base.jl b/base/docs/helpdb/Base.jl
index f0dd424e30995..389ea45787406 100644
--- a/base/docs/helpdb/Base.jl
+++ b/base/docs/helpdb/Base.jl
@@ -2065,33 +2065,6 @@ Kronecker tensor product of two vectors or two matrices.
 """
 kron
 
-"""
-    fieldoffsets(type)
-
-The byte offset of each field of a type relative to the data start. For example, we could
-use it in the following manner to summarize information about a struct type:
-
-```jldoctest
-julia> structinfo(T) = [zip(fieldoffsets(T),fieldnames(T),T.types)...];
-
-julia> structinfo(StatStruct)
-12-element Array{Tuple{Int64,Symbol,DataType},1}:
- (0,:device,UInt64)
- (8,:inode,UInt64)
- (16,:mode,UInt64)
- (24,:nlink,Int64)
- (32,:uid,UInt64)
- (40,:gid,UInt64)
- (48,:rdev,UInt64)
- (56,:size,Int64)
- (64,:blksize,Int64)
- (72,:blocks,Int64)
- (80,:mtime,Float64)
- (88,:ctime,Float64)
-```
-"""
-fieldoffsets
-
 """
     randn([rng], [dims...])
 
diff --git a/contrib/BBEditTextWrangler-julia.plist b/contrib/BBEditTextWrangler-julia.plist
index 3e812dc285a93..ec952fe984240 100644
--- a/contrib/BBEditTextWrangler-julia.plist
+++ b/contrib/BBEditTextWrangler-julia.plist
@@ -426,7 +426,6 @@
               <string>fft</string>
               <string>fft!</string>
               <string>fftshift</string>
-              <string>fieldoffsets</string>
               <string>filemode</string>
               <string>filesize</string>
               <string>fill</string>