Re: autorevert and excessive verbosity.

[Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

   > own prior changes.  They would allow for a special return value `fast'
   > of buffer-stale-function, indicating that the function just returned

   Why not call it `quiet'?

That would make sense for auto-revert.  But determining the stale-ness
of the buffer potentially could be useful for other things.  It seems
to me that `fast' better describes the reason for returning non-nil,
even though no check was done.

Sincerely,

Luc.