From: Vinicius Jose Latorre <viniciusjl@ig.com.br>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Uninformative comment in files.el
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:55:26 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <475EF93E.3060203@ig.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvbq8xnk9m.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Could whoever installed the following change:
>
> 2007-12-10 Yoni Rabkin Katzenell <yoni-r@actcom.com> (tiny change)
> * file.el (revert-buffer): Eliminate overlays and the mark.
>
> replace the comment "Reset the mark and remove all overlays" which just
> paraphrases the code, with a comment that actually explains why we
> want/need to do that?
>
This is not explained in etc/TODO file.
The patch refers to this line in etc/TODO file:
** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark.
Does anyone know why this is necessary?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-11 20:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-11 18:46 Uninformative comment in files.el Stefan Monnier
2007-12-11 20:55 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre [this message]
2007-12-11 22:05 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-12 2:22 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-12-12 6:31 ` Yoni Rabkin Katzenell
2007-12-12 9:17 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-12 14:22 ` Yoni Rabkin Katzenell
2007-12-12 12:28 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2007-12-12 15:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-12 15:41 ` Yoni Rabkin Katzenell
2007-12-13 16:51 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-13 17:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-13 19:01 ` martin rudalics
2007-12-13 19:35 ` David Kastrup
2007-12-14 20:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-14 20:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-16 3:43 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-12-17 8:24 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <E1J2aRp-00010Y-QD@fencepost.gnu.org>
[not found] ` <476084A9.4010800@ig.com.br>
2007-12-14 10:10 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-20 23:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-21 19:49 ` Richard Stallman
2007-12-23 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-12-12 22:52 ` Richard Stallman
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