From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:34:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fd2uj6$ikt$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87myvf783h.fsf@zorba.coolheads.com>
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.
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
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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 [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1152.1190461055.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-24 20:41 ` Ken Goldman
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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