From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should `revert-buffer' preserve text-scaling by default?
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2019 09:22:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83imn1omkf.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8736e6tm51.fsf@red-bean.com> (message from Karl Fogel on Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:20:42 -0600)
> From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2019 15:20:42 -0600
>
> However, the more I think about it, the more I wonder if maybe just
> defaulting `preserve-modes' to true might be the best solution. Does it really make sense to *not* preserve modes by default when reverting a buffer?
Well, the fact that we did that for eons is one huge evidence that it
does make sense.
But I won't object to exposing that argument via a defcustom or a
special value of prefix arg.
> So how about we just flip that parameter's sense and change its name to `discard-modes' (or `revert-modes', or whatever)?
This must be an opt-in feature, for backward compatibility reasons.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-30 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-29 20:24 Should `revert-buffer' preserve text-scaling by default? Karl Fogel
2019-11-29 20:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-29 21:02 ` Karl Fogel
2019-11-30 7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-11-29 21:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-11-29 21:20 ` Karl Fogel
2019-11-30 7:22 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-12-01 8:15 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-01 9:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-12-01 10:24 ` Juanma Barranquero
2019-12-01 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-01 10:27 ` Michael Albinus
2019-12-01 17:35 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-01 18:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-02 2:01 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-02 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-02 17:19 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-02 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-02 22:29 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-02 22:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2019-12-03 0:36 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-03 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-03 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-03 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-12-03 17:35 ` Karl Fogel
2019-12-01 21:49 ` Juri Linkov
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