Re: Command to re-read current file?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

bill wrote:

> If the file corresponding to the current buffer changes on disk,
> and I want the buffer to reflect the new version, I normally do
> "C-f [RET] yes".  It bugs me to have to answer 'yes' (or even 'y')
> in these cases.  Is there a command to tell Emacs, "re-read the
> file from disk and don't ask me about it"?


I use find-alternate-file for this purpose, since it's bound to a
key that's easy to type (C-x C-v), provides the current visited
file name as the default, and doesn't require any confirmation.


> But this is a relatively trivial issue.  A far more important
> question is the following meta-question:  how could I have figured
> out the answer to the previous question on my own?  I tried apropos
> with various query strings, such as "re-find", "re-open", "re-visit",
> and variants thereof, but they yielded nothing.  Is there a better
> approach to finding the command for an Emacs functionality?

I guess you meant `C-x C-f' above, which is bound to find-file.  `C-h

C-k C-x C-f' or `C-h C-f find-file RET' take you to that section of
the manual, which includes find-alternate-file (C-x C-v).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers