Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again

[Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null>]

"Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com> writes:

> On 23/09/2007, Tim X <timx@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>
>> So  Dave, guess what, my advice .....RTFM!
>
>
> No Tim, I'd never found either of those indices. Like Steve, I'm still looking
> at the word revert and seeing some form of 'go back' to something.
> IMHO, today, it's plain wrong. The CMS example even justified that
> interpretation.
>

This is the bit I obviously just don't understand - how could you not have
found the indexes and glossory? They are listed on the very first page of
the manual (at least they should be unless something is broken in your
version). 

With respect to revert - I don't agree it is just plain wrong. It only
seems wrong in one context - the one in which you are updating from a file
which is constantly changing. In the more general case, where you just want
the buffer to go back to where it was at before you started making changes,
i.e. re-read (or even re-load) the file, it is reverting. I'd agree that in
hindsight, reread (or maybe re-load) may have been better, but ....

I won't ask you what you think of apropos :-)

Tim



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