From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About `r' and `g' in Package Menu mode Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:41:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87txbbzxhw.fsf@gnu.org> <877g87u5yu.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1394167333 6903 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2014 04:42:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 04:42:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 07 05:42:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLmc0-0002Np-Q0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:42:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34380 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLmc0-0006Cz-Ed for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59252) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLmbi-0006Ar-CG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:42:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLmba-0003Yf-UP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:42:02 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55330) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WLmba-0003YD-O8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Mar 2014 23:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WLmbX-0001o5-MT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:41:51 +0100 Original-Received: from 108.175.232.97 ([108.175.232.97]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:41:51 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 108.175.232.97 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Mar 2014 05:41:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.175.232.97 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:P9Pt145jw26Idzte6RgWcC3608w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96286 Archived-At: > I think the main difference is that `r' will download the archive > contents again, whereas `g' only rebuilds the tabulated list of packages > that have been downloaded previously. I think this distinction only makes sense when M-x list-packages does not itself download the archive contents again. IOW if M-x list-packages downloads the archive contents again, then revert-buffer (aka `g') should too. And vice-versa. Stefan