From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
Cc: 35290-done@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru
Subject: bug#35290: 27.0.50; Outdated vc-revert documentation
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:28:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838swageax.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABczVwczBjEpxP7SKMLRAXmitS3oWfhVbL1U3EEYRdWrUWo3Gg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Mauro Aranda on Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:25:52 -0300)
> From: Mauro Aranda <maurooaranda@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:25:52 -0300
> Cc: 35290@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Because the section is called "VC Undo", I guess.
>
> OK. But I fail to see a reason why a user, after reading the Undo
> section, would expect that M-x undo acts upon anything that is not
> buffer text. That is what made me think (perhaps wrongly) that the
> sentence is about the old behavior of revert-buffer.
>
> At the least, I think the documentation could be improved. Some of the
> things vc-revert does can be reversed (e.g., bring back the reverted
> changes in the affected buffers) and other changes cannot (or might not,
> I'm not sure of the right wording here). If that is correct, then both the
> current text and my proposed patch fail to make that clear.
OK, I simply removed that sentence from the manual.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-16 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-15 15:54 bug#35290: 27.0.50; Outdated vc-revert documentation Mauro Aranda
2019-04-15 16:08 ` Mauro Aranda
2019-04-15 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-15 17:16 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-04-15 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-15 20:25 ` Dmitry Gutov
2019-04-15 22:25 ` Mauro Aranda
2019-04-16 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-04-15 17:44 ` Mauro Aranda
2019-04-15 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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