Re: an inconvenient difference in Emacs 22

[Kevin Rodgers]

Steve Newcomb wrote:
> I'm curious about this usage of the word "revert".  "Revert" normally
> connotes some sort of retrograde motion.  As far as I know, it never
> connotes forward motion at all, much less forward motion undertaken to
> catch up with someone else's forward motion.  But, until I'm
> corrected, that's how I'll understand "revert" in the context of Emacs.

I think that revert-buffer was originally developed for the case where
the user wanted to discard the changes he'd made in a modified but
unsaved buffer, reverting its contents to the original disk file.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA