From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vinicius Jose Latorre Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Uninformative comment in files.el Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:55:26 -0300 Message-ID: <475EF93E.3060203@ig.com.br> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197402899 3688 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2007 19:54:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:54:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 11 20:55:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J2BC6-0000JD-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:55:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2BBo-0005CG-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:48 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2BBj-00059a-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:43 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J2BBf-00055f-IH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J2BBf-00055c-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.179]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J2BBf-0006td-5F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:54:39 -0500 Original-Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id m34so455543ele for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:54:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; bh=ZUAktLwsvjuD/q6OD+bmFWEaFeoFrh3JwU6M0381amY=; b=fDidQNkALxvtgVDD5UjD7UTp8lZ0JkycwjW0lU/Elm5Lh28hEY7cMdEm2eymOfWosf6L+OzNqBpoTzo9Lw0QmYhtH84x/wE88k9a5DZhwWhmBrVJuhc8yob6hUMSGTX+fYnxSyZZnTSOM4bd8vvyYeMGKeU8QkryWie7UclMHNc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:sender; b=Eigla/ijEs+GistwpHehZb5+quMEVKhGNHtEat1QkFVKSIcfmnwV349l+DgssD1eAT7zyVChhMi0tmyPaoLm3BNv0CG9QZN5zVm4vcYJXYZLHacij34G0cqvdquBHGjcyHkJ/rHnnuAP5Ilq58nR1bQ3Sixzt0ds++Ac7i2uVkg= Original-Received: by 10.70.48.3 with SMTP id v3mr10645361wxv.1197402877542; Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:54:37 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from ?192.168.0.100? ( [201.82.14.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id h39sm5518728wxd.2007.12.11.11.54.29 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:54:34 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:85064 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > Could whoever installed the following change: > > 2007-12-10 Yoni Rabkin Katzenell (tiny change) > * file.el (revert-buffer): Eliminate overlays and the mark. > > replace the comment "Reset the mark and remove all overlays" which just > paraphrases the code, with a comment that actually explains why we > want/need to do that? > This is not explained in etc/TODO file. The patch refers to this line in etc/TODO file: ** revert-buffer should eliminate overlays and the mark. Does anyone know why this is necessary?