From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:05:31 +1000 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <871wcobi9g.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <46F2BA57.3060604@gmail.com> <87fy16q8kq.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190623286 22145 80.91.229.12 (24 Sep 2007 08:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:41:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Sep 24 10:41:22 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZjVJ-0005EZ-U4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:41:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IZjVG-0005rR-IJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:41:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.glorb.com!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!news-in-02.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-09!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:33FTNJzuBpiBO1OnK0P5n8Dythc= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 33 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:152283 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47793 Archived-At: "Dave Pawson" writes: > On 23/09/2007, Tim X wrote: > >> So Dave, guess what, my advice .....RTFM! > > > No Tim, I'd never found either of those indices. Like Steve, I'm still looking > at the word revert and seeing some form of 'go back' to something. > IMHO, today, it's plain wrong. The CMS example even justified that > interpretation. > This is the bit I obviously just don't understand - how could you not have found the indexes and glossory? They are listed on the very first page of the manual (at least they should be unless something is broken in your version). With respect to revert - I don't agree it is just plain wrong. It only seems wrong in one context - the one in which you are updating from a file which is constantly changing. In the more general case, where you just want the buffer to go back to where it was at before you started making changes, i.e. re-read (or even re-load) the file, it is reverting. I'd agree that in hindsight, reread (or maybe re-load) may have been better, but .... I won't ask you what you think of apropos :-) Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au