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From: Ken Goldman <kgold@watson.ibm.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:41:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46f96f49$1@news.greennet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1152.1190461055.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

Kevin Rodgers wrote:
> Steve Newcomb wrote:
> 
>> I'm curious about this usage of the word "revert".  "Revert" normally
>> connotes some sort of retrograde motion.  As far as I know, it never
>> connotes forward motion at all, much less forward motion undertaken to
>> catch up with someone else's forward motion.  But, until I'm
>> corrected, that's how I'll understand "revert" in the context of Emacs.
> 
> 
> I think that revert-buffer was originally developed for the case where
> the user wanted to discard the changes he'd made in a modified but
> unsaved buffer, reverting its contents to the original disk file.

Personally, I find that it's great for watching log files.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-20 15:03 an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22 Steve Newcomb
2007-09-20 23:45 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-21  0:55   ` Denis Bueno
2007-09-21  1:32   ` Eric Hanchrow
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1087.1190336137.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-21  4:01     ` Markus Triska
2007-09-22  2:21   ` Steve Newcomb
2007-09-22 11:34     ` Kevin Rodgers
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1152.1190461055.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-24 20:41       ` Ken Goldman [this message]
2007-10-17 22:55       ` David Combs
     [not found]   ` <mailman.1144.1190427729.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-22 20:56     ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-09-23  5:42     ` Tim X
     [not found] <mailman.1083.1190331955.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-21  5:42 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-09-21  7:38   ` Drew Adams
2007-09-21  8:05     ` Dave Pawson
     [not found] <mailman.1080.1190330832.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-20 23:36 ` Joost Kremers
2007-09-22  0:08 ` Joe Fineman

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