From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Goldman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:41:33 -0400 Message-ID: <46f96f49$1@news.greennet.net> References: <87myvf783h.fsf@zorba.coolheads.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190670042 17054 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2007 21:40:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:40:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 24 23:40:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZvfR-00015h-93 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 23:40:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZvfO-0001mw-Fr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:40:34 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; AIX 000C89FF4C00; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040617 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.91.197.52 Original-X-Trace: 25 Sep 2007 16:27:53 -0400, 192.91.197.52 Original-Lines: 17 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news-fra1.dfn.de!feeder.erje.net!news.osn.de!diablo1.news.osn.de!newsfeed.freenet.de!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!feedme.ziplink.net!news.greennet.net!192.91.197.52 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152302 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47812 Archived-At: 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.