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> From: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2021 14:15:48 +0100
> Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
>  gregory@heytings.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> What is still unclear to me is why a *global* binding for
> revert-buffer is useful.

So that users could remember only a single key sequence, and it would
do the job regardless of the current major mode.