From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#35290: 27.0.50; Outdated vc-revert documentation Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:28:22 +0300 Message-ID: <838swageax.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83bm17i6u7.fsf@gnu.org> <835zrfi122.fsf@gnu.org> <0690f9fc-e460-8778-64ff-023c0a7ca83d@yandex.ru> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="155245"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 35290-done@debbugs.gnu.org, dgutov@yandex.ru To: Mauro Aranda Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 16 17:29:16 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ1L-000e9x-MP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:29:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ1K-00018p-Mt for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:29:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:39688) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ1D-00018H-7Q for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:29:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ1B-0002QG-9X for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52413) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ18-0002Ha-Cx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ18-0002z0-51 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:29:02 -0400 Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:29:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: cc-closed 35290 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Mail-Followup-To: 35290@debbugs.gnu.org, eliz@gnu.org, maurooaranda@gmail.com Original-Received: via spool by 35290-done@debbugs.gnu.org id=D35290.155542851811427 (code D ref 35290); Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 35290-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 16 Apr 2019 15:28:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37723 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ0j-0002yF-Lt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:28:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53435) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ0i-0002y2-Aw for 35290-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:28:36 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50761) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ0b-0001hC-69; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:28:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3813 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1hGQ0a-0000an-2c; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:28:28 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Mauro Aranda on Mon, 15 Apr 2019 19:25:52 -0300) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:157723 Archived-At: > From: Mauro Aranda > 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.