Package Menu - Unintuitive Keybinding?

Package Menu - Unintuitive Keybinding?

[Jambunathan K]

My muscle memory says that 'g' always refreshes (possibly learnt from vc
mode, ibuffer mode and may be other modes).

Unfortunately in Package Menu Mode it is bound to revert-buffer and it
*doesn't* refresh the menu. For example, if I update 'package-archives'
with a new repo, archive-contents of the newly added repo doesn't get
offered.

'r' works as expected though.

May be 'g' should do what 'r' is right now doing?

Btw, what could revert-buffer possibly mean in package menu?

,----
| Package Menu mode:
| Major mode for browsing a list of packages.
| Letters do not insert themselves; instead, they are commands.
| 
| key             binding
| ---             -------
| 
| TAB		forward-button
| RET		package-menu-describe-package
| ESC		Prefix Command
| ?		package-menu-describe-package
| d		package-menu-mark-delete
| g		revert-buffer
| h		package-menu-quick-help
| i		package-menu-mark-install
| n		next-line
| p		previous-line
| q		quit-window
| r		package-menu-refresh
| u		package-menu-mark-unmark
| x		package-menu-execute
| ~		package-menu-mark-obsolete-for-deletion
| DEL		package-menu-backup-unmark
| <backtab>	backward-button
| <follow-link>	mouse-face
| <mouse-2>	mouse-select-window
| 
| M-TAB		backward-button
`----

Jambunathan K.

Re: Package Menu - Unintuitive Keybinding?

[Stefan Monnier]

> May be 'g' should do what 'r' is right now doing?

Indeed.

> Btw, what could revert-buffer possibly mean in package menu?

revert-buffer means "refresh".


        Stefan